We can’t afford to defend the world anymore. I’m not proud of that. It’s simply a fact.
However, I also agree with others that we do have vital interests overseas. Israel, for example, needs our assistance, although my concern for her is more from a Biblical basis than militarily. Genesis 12:3 says, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." If America turns her back on Israel, we are completely doomed as a nation.
And Middle East oil fields need protection until America can become completely self-dependent upon our own resources, and that can be done if the oil fields weren't all declared natural wildlife refugees by the wacko environmentalists.
But, you know, everything that is happening was predicted a few thousand years ago and so we won't be able to stop the slide towards obscurity, moral depravity and eventually (probably) civil and social upheaval.
It's going to happen, and O could quite possibly be the great enabler to see that it happens. If that's the case, all we can do is stand by, helplessly, and watch the destruction of a nation we all love(d) because people are too stupid to see what their choices are enabling to happen.
The first Men in Black movie had a series of lines that went like this:
James: Why not tell people, people are smart.
Agent K: A person is smart, people are dumb panicy animals and you know it!
Class dismissed.