Most of these issues emanate and propagate from elsewhere, they require you to go somewhere else and fix them: pirates of the shore of Somalia or strait of Malacca; someone building missiles and developing NBC technology like Iran, formerly Libya; a nation like Iraq that invades Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia; Libya threatening the Mediterranean; assassinations of people within ones borders by foreign agents; massive influx of refugees caused by the regional destabilization of someone like Serbia acting out their wild fantasies; foreign trained, equipped and financed terrorists that hit targets within ones nation; foreign nations that are actively conducting Psyop campaigns on one.......... In the past many and today MOST of our “real” (existential type - not the criminal) of security threats are not ones that are dealt with by policing internally. They are threats that require action outside ones borders.
Again, lets look at Germany:
The La Belle Disco as the Pan Am 103 attacks were Libyan sponsored attacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Berlin_discotheque_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
Or think of this. Let's look at an ever worse freeloader, Austria. You have the Iranians assassinating people in Austria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Ghassemlou Do you really think this is something you can deal with by having a police officer on the street corner somewhere?
The “real” (i.e. existential) threats require one to venture out into those places these $hitheads are bread, taught, financed, trained, equipped....... dealing with the governments that tolerate or even support them..... dealing with the lawlessness in areas that allows some of these characters to do whatever they want, in a vacuum of law and order. Protecting our collective interests is not accomplished by placing one more Polizei somewhere. Germany's RAF problem went away when the wall came down because the RAF was being supported by the former East Block. There is a reason why the wall fell and within a few years the RAF disappeared, why most were caught in the East, why their explosives were Eastern origin (i.e. Semtex)..................... The Polizei wasn't going to solve the RAF problem, the end of the DDR did.
Our collective interests require these so called “military adventures,” a term first coined in 2002 by Schroeder that puts a negative spin on them (This was the SAME GUY that argued for intervention earlier in the Balkans! lol): http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article405731/Schroeder_sagt_definitiv_Nein_zu_Irak_Krieg.html These “military adventures” are in reality required and only because others are doing their bidding for them, can they think like this.
External threats exist. I did not say any different. However, we in America tend to consider everythign OUR problem. Civil war in Libya is not our problem. Maybe it is France’s, I don’t know. But ours it isn’t.
Incidentally, I liked Reagan’s approach much better. Bomb a disco, get a missile in your backyard. No coalitions, no world policing, nothing of the sort.