Posted on 11/29/2009 7:09:50 AM PST by IbJensen
It is an interesting exercise to question all the assumptions of American foreign policy for the last sixty years -- that is, for as long as we've provided the defense umbrella for Europe, the free countries of Asia, and for our allies in the Middle East, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
That's after all the meaning of Pax Americana. We do the work, they do the bitching.
Obama and the Left don't have the least inkling of the vital peace-keeping role of America as the cop on the world beat for the last six decades. They hardly understand the idea of peace officers on domestic beats. It just doesn't get through those hard plastic space helmets around their heads.
Let's pretend there is no Pax Americana. Obama sounds like he's ready to shaft Israel, which certainly would be consistent with his whole upbringing and his locked-in Leftist worldview. Jerusalem, according to the administration, is doing the dirty on the Palestinians by adding housing in the city for Jews. Funny thing, nobody seemed to mind much when Obama sent that message to Benjamin Netanyahu. Least of all the Israelis, who just ignored it.
Well, the Left has managed to conceive an inveterate hatred of Israel while not losing many Jewish liberal votes. Shafting Israel is a no-lose proposition for them. And still they keep their liberal Jewish voters. It is a miracle to behold.
No wonder Obama wants to walk away from that troublesome little country that gets all the Arabs so angry. What's he got to lose?
Well, Taiwan, for one thing. There's another troublesome little country right off the coast of mighty China, which owns a lot of US debt, and has had lines into the last two Democrat administrations that have looked mighty suspicious. Nothing would please China more than having the US Navy withdraw its protection from Taiwan.
See, Obama's making peace already.
Then there's South Korea, another troublesome partner.
Why not have the Kim family take over the South? It's no skin off our noses. The conquest of South Korea could probably feed the hungry people of the North for years and years before the whole peninsula went kaput. And Kim Jong il could finally get his nukes to work.
We could dump Afghanistan, too. Obama is turning up his nose at Hamid Karzai because his re-election looked dubious. Which makes Kabul sound just like Chicago. It takes awesome gall for a Chicago Machine politician to criticize an impoverished and nearly ungovernable Third World country for its electoral imperfections.
Well, let's send Mayor Daley over there to fix Afghan politics. Maybe he can teach them to make the dead rise up on Election Day. That way Afghanistan will come up to high Illinois standards of democratic probity.
That solves our biggest foreign policy problems, right?
But that's not all. Why should the United States defend Europe against the Russians? Or protect the free nations of Asia against China and North Korea? Why not let them all go down? And why do we have to defend free trade in the world? Why are we in the Persian Gulf? Just think of all the money we can save -- and we'll need that money if O-Mob-O-Care passes Congress.
We've subsidized Europe's and Asia's defenses for sixty years. Maybe Uncle Vlad the Poisoner over in Moscow would be willing to protect Europe against militant Islam just the way he did with Chechnya. For a price, of course.
To be sure, if we walk away from our allies they will inevitably build up their own nukes and missiles. Japan could have WMDs rather quickly, with South Korea and Taiwan not so far behind. The French would be happy to supply nukes to the emerging EU army. Israel and the Saudis both want to stop the mad Twelver Cult in Tehran before it gets nukes. All nations want to survive; they may hate each other, but that has never stopped alliances. Europeans who hated each other still made alliances for a thousand years before the United States became a world power. They can do it again.
Pax Americana has been the most benevolent imperial enterprise in all of human history, bar none. Our good friends in Europe love to rant at us, especially if they can get us to knuckle under to Euro-Socialism, which puts them in charge of the United States. That's after all the reigning goal of the EU and UN corruptocracy. That's what the Global Warming Fraud has been all about.
The newly appointed President of the EU just declared that 2009 is the first year of global governance. Guess who gets to do the global governance? It's not us. No, this is Year One of the Belgian Empire.
Americans forget that we've defended the civilized world for almost a hundred years because the Europeans couldn't be trusted to do it. Europe has been the source of almost every single aggressive imperialism in the last two centuries, from Napoleon to Bismarck, Karl Marx, the Kaiser, Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin in the Cold War. Imperial Japan is the sole significant exception. Our liberal media constantly cover up that inconvenient fact.
But it is true, and we forget it at our peril.
Euro-Imperialism is rising again today under the smiling face of EU socialism. That's Obama's creed, as we know. That's why he keeps apologizing for the United States to all the socialists of the world.
Obama's mental blinders come straight from Karl Marx's Prussia in the 19th century, and from V.I. Lenin in 1917. Now those were real imperialisms, not the Coca-Cola kind that has our European friends crying in their beer.
If we walk away from the world, the Israelis, the Saudis, the Brits, the Czechs and Poles, the Germans, Japanese and South Koreans have to accelerate their own nuke and missile defenses, because in the nuclear age that's their only chance for survival. China may not really want to see Japan owning nuclear weapons and missiles. They still smart from the pain of Nanking. Obama's deep bow to Emperor Akihito did not buy him any friends in Beijing.
Tehran already tried to stir up riots in Mecca. Without the United States to control the Gulf, what is to keep the Iranians from overrunning Saudi Arabia? They have the population and the military power to do it. If the US goes home, all the Iranians have to do is bust through the desert (good tank country) and go straight to the Holy Cities of Islam. Think they wouldn't dare, if they owned a nice set of nukes and missiles? Who would stop them? Obama?
For sixty years we've lived with the fantasy that the world has become a safe place at last, and that peace is the natural condition of mankind. Let's see if Barack Obama is fool enough to tinker with that delicately balanced contraption.
The last time a delicate power balance broke apart, the immediate result was World War I, Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution and Hitler. If Obama walks away from Afghanistan, Israel and Taiwan, we will see Europe and Asia switching all their alliances very fast. Pull out that American peg from the Big Circus tent, and it won't look like peace on earth, good will to men, forever and ever, amen.
It might look a lot more like August, 1914.
How can we say that he's committed treason against his country? This cigarette-puffing, pot-headed Muslim was probably not born in the USA. Reports keep filtering in from Kenyans that he is definitely one of theirs.
He does, however, need to be escorted from the White House along with Michelle, her mother, little Sasha and Malia and deported.
He's a criminal!
Great line and so very true. I'm sick of hearing how the world hates us.
>>Obama and the Left don’t have the least inkling of the vital peace-keeping role of America as the cop on the world beat for the last six decades. They hardly understand the idea of peace officers on domestic beats. It just doesn’t get through those hard plastic space helmets around their heads.<<
Sorry, our country was not set up to be (and should not be) the world’s police.
He’s definitely overstayed his Indonesian student visa!
Silly comparison. We have a mutual defense treaty with the UK, i.e., NATO. We don't have a mutual defense agreement with Israel.
When was a treaty every binding on the conscience of a Marxist?
Even the Marxist cannot wriggle out of that one. We still live in a democractic republic, not a dictatorship.
If Obama walks away from Afghanistan, Israel and Taiwan, we will see Europe and Asia switching all their alliances very fast...
If they decided they needed them, the SKs could probably have working nukes in less than a month.
The biggest problem with the US pulling out of the rest of the world is that it would encourage massive arming by all parties to defend themselves, since the US won't do it for them. This would be a profoundly unstable situation.
My boss thinks the world would be safe and peaceful if only the US military went away. IMO this is a lot like blaming cops for crime, firemen for fires, or doctors for cancer.
Haven’t looked at the news lately have you? We haven’t been a democratic republic for a long... LONG time.
Pax Americana has arguably ended or is hastily heading to an end.
Obama understands what our role was as cop of the world, he just believes he has a better use for the funds entailed.
Just think of all the cash he can distribute as retribution for slavery and to ACORN and CAIR if America resigned as world cop.
That's how Obama thinks!
As long as we have the Constitution, it will be.
Look at it this way...in a few years, certainly less than fifty, London will be Muslim anyway.
Nonsense. More World Order.
Our Republic was not set up to police the world.
Liberty and freedom works for individuals, as well as Nations.
Nations, need to defend themselves, and not depend on US. Just as the individual, seeks to defend himself, and not turn to Gov’t.
Europe has used the umbrella of our protection to build a socialist mindset, that allows for less defense, health care, shorten work weeks, etc, on the backs of the security we provide If America is to provide welfare, it should do so to it's citizens, and drop the foreign welfare we use in the form of Foreign affairs. Which of course, is nothing more than Affirmative Action to other cultures.
Obummer and his complicit Congress has deliberately bankrupted this nation. Furthermore, any nation that has shipped practically all of its manufacturing out of the country is doomed. And they know that as well. In fact they were counting on it.
These are weasels of the very worst kind. They know what they want and how to do it and are succeeding very nicely. The two party system has worked well for them and they will continue to spread the false rumors that that system is the only way to go.
We've got news for them. A solid, Conservative third party would siphon enough votes from each to get a true conservative elected. The building of the third party would proceed from there.
No 'moderates' (stand for nothing) will be allowed!
It's either that or Civil War II and no party; just a benevolent despot.
In order for that to be true our “leaders” would need to abide by the Constitution, which they haven’t for a long... LONG time.
“Sorry, our country was not set up to be (and should not be) the world’s police.”
Quoted for truth.
“Pax Americana” carries all the negative connotations of the failing Roman Empire. America has no empire, and never has. I think this was the writer’s intention.
Why not proclaim that America will build a kingdom that will last 1000 years?
Before we get too eager comparing ourselves to the Empire we might show a little interest in how the Empire ended, and specifically, how peaceful the Pax Romana truly was when it all came crashing down into their laps.
I agree 100%!
If a country, like Saudi Arabia trains terrorists, like the 9/11 rats then that nation's ability to produce oil should be destroyed.
If North Korea doesn't dump the psychopath then they'll be better off if all key installations were destroyed.
Since we didn't have the guts to beat what was left of the crap out of Russia at the end of the war against German, we should destroy Moscow. If Putin and his criminals persist in being the proverbial thorn in our paw then have it out now instead of vacillating until they're able to wipe us out with impunity.
Iran, Venezuela and Cuba: poof!
Then go back to the Monroe Doctrine. Close our borders to any immigration, bring our manufacturing base back, decimate our central government and begin to enjoy life again.
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