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To: rdcbn

Dumping NATO and re-evaluating standing forces does not equate to isolationism.
It is time to reevaluate who our friends really are.


113 posted on 03/22/2016 10:35:26 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

we need to stop becoming the cop of the world!


118 posted on 03/22/2016 10:37:52 AM PDT by revivaljoe
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To: MrEdd
Dumping NATO and re-evaluating standing forces does not equate to isolationism.
It is time to reevaluate who our friends really are.


Nations don't have friends, they have interests.

When nations have common interests and work together for mutual protection that makes them allies.

Europe is an American ally (despite Obama’ s best attempts to destroy that alliance), as is Japan, Australia, Canada and S Korea and many others.

Thanks to 8 years of Obama America can no longer fight a two front war and would be stressed if it had to fight a major single front war.

In an era of shrinking defense budgets, the NATO alliance is in our national interests and makes more sense, not less sense.

The Europeans have been slow to accept that they are in a war with Islam, but now they find that they are not just in a war, they are fighting that war on their own soil. We are in a similar boat and facing the same world wide transnational threats . This is not the time for Trump to be preaching isolationism, which is exactly what he is currently proposing. If that's incorrect, the Trump should clarify his position

133 posted on 03/22/2016 10:48:23 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
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