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To: Angelino97
Something wrong with that? You saying that the USA can’t win a war?
I can not recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our duties to the rest of the world without again pressing upon you the necessity of placing ourselves in a condition of complete defense and of exacting from them the fulfillment of their duties toward us. The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.

— George Washington, 5th Annual Address to Congress
Not to rush in blindly of course, but to continue to cultivate the reputation that Brandon branded on us is folly and destructive to our national security.
60 posted on 12/28/2021 8:38:29 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Washington was talking about being strong enough to repel an invasion of the U.S. He wasn't talking about protecting foreign countries.

Surely you know that Washington is famous for advising us to avoid "foreign entanglements."

63 posted on 12/29/2021 5:31:37 AM PST by Angelino97
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