[Valin]

“The world is not our problem, and we have no solutions.”

3 small simple questions that need to be asked and answered..

1. What Do You Want?
2. How Do You Get It?
(and most importantly)
3. THEN WHAT HAPPENS?

....and a thought.

Someone IS going to be the dominate power in the world. I think it should be America. In spite of mistakes, the world is a much better, richer, more safer place because we are the dominate power. Now IF not us...Who...China? Because a world where China dominates is a very different world...and not in a good way....for anyone one including America.

[silverleaf]

TheTrump Doctrine focuses on question 2, but using the American economy- not just the military - to spread and influence

The neocons just cannot wrap their post Cold War brains around this

Thats why Trump’s trade confrontation now with China
Global economic balance

Warfare in another dimension, and he is our best hope at winning

[Robert DeLong]

I am not implying that we should not maintain ourselves as the dominate power. Just that as the dominate power we do not need to involve ourselves with every problem that exists.

Both the Kurds & Turkey are allies. However, Turkey is a member of NATO. So how do we choose sides? It's a CF we should avoid. Either expel Turkey from NATO and bring in the remaining members of NATO to deal with Turkey, or arm the Kurds.

The time has come to quit interjecting our national treasures into every crisis unilaterally & militarily.