Golly Gosh, just like Russia, China, North Korea? We don’t have to saber rattle at home, we spend enough blood, lives and money doing that across the world.
Who told you I am for acting world police? I have posted here until blue in the face how stupid it is to act as world’s policeman with Trillion dollar budget deficits for next few years. Vietnam and Iraq wars were the 2 biggest blunders in terms of blood & treasure spent versus return on investment. Vietnam was taken over by communists and Iraq is dominated by Iran’s regime. Vietnam is going big time capitalist on its own after experience with communism for 3 decades. Iraq & Afghanistan are lost causes due to religious control. Stay out of Muslim countries in trying to build democracies there.
If we are not stupid, focus on losing the debtor nation status, focus on building a military which can respond with ferocity, and focus on trade policy to enhance the vast middle class instead of oligarchs like the
Koch brothers who desire importing cheap immigrant labor and export manufacturing facilities to cheaper labor countries.