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The carriers need to be out where they can respond in minutes to an attack on one of our allies.
Which allies? What allies? Japan? Taiwan? NATO? Turkey? Israel? Who are we protecting them from? How much are they compensating us for the billions we spend defending them? Would they go to war for us?
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Thanks John Kerry. At least we know where your grasp of things ends.
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Try climbing the ladder a little bit. After 70 years of wasting our blood and treasure so other countries could build little socialist paradises under our protection maybe it's time the US went Galt.
I find it rather humorous that you #1, keep that chart handy in case you're taken to task, #2, don't realize that just about every category was answered by my response to you, #3, you know so little about John Kerry, that you couldn't make the connection, and # 4, you actually needed me to explain it to you.
Yes, well it should sound something like I'm calling you an ass hat. I could have worded it that way, but just mentioning (or more accurately inferring) it's conformity to John Kerry's vision should have said volumes to you. Alas, you couldn't figure that out for yourself.
Yes, naturally you're going to use an Ad Hominem attack to defend against what you feel is an As Hominem attack. LOL I guess that was also lost on you. Once again, the use of the term grows hollow the more you comprehend John Kerry's vision. If someone raises the issue of your sounding as if you're channeling John Kerry, it might cause you to think more about the why, than how to defend against them saying it. And lest you think yours wasn't an Ad Hominem attack, you didn't mention the words "John Kerry" at all.
I'm not sure the tone argument applies here, but I will say the comments you made were certainly tone deaf. That old worn out, "We're paying everyone elses way..." argument, completely misses the issue of our allies in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East from being attacked successfully for over 60 years. How long was it between World War I and World War II? Was the post WWI decomissioning of our forces a successful strategy? What costs more, keeping our troops on fireign shores peacefully, or having to put them in after hositlites have broken out? John Kerry doesn't know. Obama doesn't know. Evidently you don't either. What was the cost in human lives over the last 60 years? Did it come even close to the yearly averages for WWI or WWII? Why?
There are volumes known about John Kerry, what his past has been, what his vision is, what his political leaning is, and what his damage to the U. S. is on an ongoing basis. I shouldn't have to list the things that worry us the most concerning him. If you don't know, I suggest you study up.
I could go on to refute the top several categories of your pyramid, but it's not necessary. What we are doing will lead to WW III quicker than any other strategy. It is has been proven over time. Now we'll open the door to adventurism again, just so idiots who can't glean anything from history, can damn their proginy to have to relive the calamities again.
Now that the U. S. is backing away from it's global committment, there will be a void left.
Other nations will fill that void. I'm curious to know what a guy who thinks it very effective to post an idiotic graphic on the forum in an effort to cover his ass, would say about this.
Here's your list of other nations that will fill the void, by themselves in time, with others in time, or in isolated ways in short order.
China
Russia
North Korea
Iran
China is already policing it's own territorial claims in the Western Pacific, and now the Indian Ocean. We practically invited them in, as we shirked our role to protect free passage on the high seas from Somali Pirates. China swooped in to fill the void.
Gosh I feel so much safer. /s Well, evidently you do. You're so caught up in the Leftist argument that we unfairly spend too much money on other people's security, that you can't grasp the fact that it's our security as well. While we spend as much money on give-aways to citizens and non-citizens in the U. S., you and the Left focus on cutting back our military, the one thing our federal government is tasked to do.
So yes, my reference to John Kerry provided enough information to replace volumes. Sadly, you couldn't grasp it. You saw it as an unfair response to your nonsensical comments, and I'm sure you will continue to do so.
