Do you know where his type of doctrine started?
It started in the 60s and 70s in the Hippy movement. George McGovern brought it mainstream. The Democrats have not supported a military campaign since.
For the record, they were against everything we did during the Cold War too. If Russia came down against something, the people who were the first to adopt your stance, joined them. Each and every time they joined them.
When Ronald Reagan tussled with the U.S.S.R., these people opposed him every step of the way. He was a Warmonger to them. Today, folks who support a strong military and campaigns overseas are the ones who take on his mantle, and are called Warmongers.
Today China is termed the dominant power in the Indian Ocean. If certain people get their way, that will expand outward. China already has designs on territory way behind it’s shores. It wants to expand and every nation in the region is at risk. That includes every nation in the Indian Ocean.
If we have to deal with China at some point, we will have surrendered vast expanses of the high seas to them before hostilities break out.
If India is attacked, we’re not there to help. China wins. If any part of that region is attacked, there will nobody to stop China. China will do what Japan did in World War II, only there will be nobody to set things straight.
I understand what drives you. In some respects I wish we could live in the world you think you want. I don’t believe it exists now, and it for certain will not exist in a few short years.
We either remain globally capable, or we surrender our supremacy to a power that will dominate this planet in ways you only thought the United States did. Sadly, when you wake up to the difference, it will all be over.
A force for good will have been eliminated, and if you think our quality of life here increases after that, I can’t help you.
You have aligned yourself with the enemies of our nation.
I know you think you are taking the moral position here. I know you do this thinking it is the best thing.
It isn’t.
If our country was not bankrupt by every standard practice of accounting, I would be the first to thump my chest and roar loudly and act as a super power.
Wake up and smell the coffee. We are $17.6 TRILLION in official debt and $95 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities from laws on books for future benefits to Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security and interest due on national debt.
Every super power in history met it’s demise with military adventures on a bankrupt treasury. This is not the era of Ronald Reagan when our economy was strong, thanks to his policies.
Our children and grandchildren already owe Trillions of debt to China, Japan & other foreigners. This is not the time to be chicken hawks.
We better strengthen the economy, pay off the debt and then we can thump our chest again.
With regards to China, they can flex their muscles exactly because they have an expanding economy. We owe THEM money. They do not owe us anything. They are our financial masters now.
I can’t think of anything more stupid than borrowing from China to protect oil lanes out of straits of Hormuz from which most of the oil flows to China and Japan.