From a Princess Bride, “No, the first Big Mistake is to get involved in a land war in Asia.”
I don’t think we could even defeat Cuba with the current CINC in charge.
The only thing the United States can defeat is itself.
A heavy dose of national repentance is the starting point.
How can America regain its status as a superpower?
We borrowed $2 trillion from China so we could invade Iraq. Think that was smart?
NO...thanks to bath house barry....
With Obama as Community-Organizer-in-Chief, the United States could not even defeat the combined military power of Qatar and a bunch of JV terrorists.
I can easily see China,Russia and other countries binding together to take us down....even further than Obama has already done!
The Chinese have us outnumbered 10 to 1, and we are unwilling to use any of our nuclear weapons no matter what we pretend otherwise.
We would lose and lose decisively and fast in my opinion against the Chinese alone much less the two of them together.
Not with o-loser in office!
Yes.
Right after the Democrat Party is abolished.
Free Traders have made us temporarily dependent on the world so IMO about 50 years of economic isolation, albeit painful at first, would do us a ‘world’ of good.
For Obama, victory is not the goal.
“How can America regain its status as a superpower?”
By returning to policies of domestic prosperity, and being the friends of liberty everywhere but the defenders of none but our own.
You, know, sort of like the Founders advised, over and over again?
The never ending aggression against the world that the NeoCons have spread happens to coincide with the start of our decline. That is not a coincidence.
“1. Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand li, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day. Such is the cost of raising an army of 100,000 men.
2. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
4. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
6. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”
The business of America is business, not the war racket so vigorously advanced by chickenhawk bureaucrats and parlor marshals.
If we asked this question....yes
Impose a large tariff on Chinese goods being imported... cut them off at the knees
Repeal the laws to be able to send our energy overseas...to cut Putin's gonads off
Of course, that would highly affect the price of USA goods....our gibsmedat / FSA people would not stand for it...
It won't be just Russia and China.
We have the tools, manpower and expertise, but currently we aren’t ruthless enough to win.
Only if they only take out Washington, DC.
It can. The questions are for how long, given the present and ongoing degradation of our military, and will it choose to?