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Petraeus: World order under 'unprecedented threat'
thehill.com ^ | 2/1/17 | Rebecca Kheel

Posted on 02/01/2017 10:47:25 AM PST by ColdOne

Retired Gen. David Petraeus warned lawmakers on Wednesday that the world order created in part by the United States in the 20th century is under “unprecedented threat from multiple directions,” pointing to Russia, China, Islamist extremists and cyber threats.

Those threats are compounded by an America whose “resolve about its defense has become somewhat ambivalent,” he added.

“Americans should not take the current international order for granted,” Petraeus said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. “It did not will itself into existence. We created it. Likewise, it is not naturally self-sustaining. We have sustained it. If we stop doing so, it will fray and, eventually, collapse."

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1 posted on 02/01/2017 10:47:25 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

So is this a pro Trump or an anti Trump sentiment


2 posted on 02/01/2017 10:49:27 AM PST by BRL
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To: ColdOne

Wait, I thought the New “World Order” was just a conspiracy theory.

How could it be collapsing?


3 posted on 02/01/2017 10:49:52 AM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: BRL

Sounds anti Obama to me.


4 posted on 02/01/2017 10:52:01 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: BRL

I’d say it’s just a realistic appraisal of where Obama has left us.


5 posted on 02/01/2017 10:54:48 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: ColdOne

“Americans should not take the current international order for granted,” Petraeus said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. “It did not will itself into existence. We created it.

Now he is Believing in the “New World Order” and even claims we created it!! We all know it is just part of a Right Wing conspiracy theory, or so we have been told for 40 years./s

Petraeus should be immediately locked up for a 72 hour psychiatric hold for this obvious lunacy.


6 posted on 02/01/2017 10:55:12 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: VitacoreVision

4th turning... The old order doesn’t cut it anymore.


7 posted on 02/01/2017 10:56:41 AM PST by sarge83
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To: ColdOne

Good.

The “world order” was bad for America and getting worse.


8 posted on 02/01/2017 10:58:03 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ColdOne
We have sustained it. If we stop doing so, it will fray and, eventually, collapse."

Go complain to the UN, Dave.

9 posted on 02/01/2017 10:58:58 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: ColdOne
No one that heard him knew WTF or who he was talking about. Or they interpreted it with different meanings...They were all to embarrassed to question WTF he just said.

Using big words in rambling garbled speech doesn't make you intelligent.

10 posted on 02/01/2017 11:01:29 AM PST by lewislynn
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To: ColdOne
The Post-War Atlantic Alliance no longer serves a purpose. The old Cold War alignment of nations no longer applies. Curiously, we have had nothing since but misguided or wasteful adventurism in the middle east since. (Sykes-Picot, anyone?)

Any international "order" must serve the present moment and benefit first the United States and her allies. Everything else takes second place.

11 posted on 02/01/2017 11:03:49 AM PST by Oratam
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To: ColdOne

Practicing his DuckSpeak I see.


12 posted on 02/01/2017 11:04:25 AM PST by The Toll
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To: ColdOne

Perhaps “it” is a POS and needs to be replaced with something that more benefits the US, General.


13 posted on 02/01/2017 11:05:25 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ColdOne
It's pro-America so pro-Trump.

Obama created a lot of enemies.

14 posted on 02/01/2017 11:05:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ColdOne
Americans should not take the current international order for granted

I don't.

The sooner it is destroyed, the better.

15 posted on 02/01/2017 11:06:12 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: ColdOne
The latest move by the D.C. punditocracy and consultantocracy is the attempt to save their well-paid jobs through positing this false dichotomy - we move forwards as we have, or we move backwards. They are not deft enough to follow Trump's spider jump 3 blocks to the side, 4 backwards and 17 ahead along a different axis.

They simply see it in terms of frontal warfare, and cannot see that we and the world need to be in another place altogether. Defend America, defeat ISIS and not become guarantor of all the world's troubles. You cannot do that - they say. It doesn't compute in their small brains.

Sad to see Petraeus as a member of this crowd, but there you have it.

16 posted on 02/01/2017 11:13:23 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Sacajaweau

From the article “Many of Petraeus’s remarks hinted at pushing back against statements and policies from President Trump,....”


17 posted on 02/01/2017 11:16:42 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: BRL

He’s a never trumper who nevertheless sucked up and tried to audition for a job after the election

Buh Bye Dave, that adulterous romance with the groupie cost you everything


18 posted on 02/01/2017 11:16:50 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: ColdOne
What he was talking about (I think) was that the system of collective security set up by the U.S. and allies after WWII is becoming less effective due to lack of determination on the part of U.S. administrations. While this may contain a germ of truth, in fact that system of collective security (1) never did subsume the UN as hoped; (2) has been threatened more by lack of investment of resources by the other members than the U.S., a point Trump has made repeatedly, and (3) is simply not configured to deal with the new geopolitical realities of incredibly well-funded Islamic expansionism. It isn't that increased U.S. attention and determination is required, in my view, it's that it needs to be pointed in another direction and its focus refined. The notion that the "North Atlantic" nation of Turkey might, through NATO treaties, commit the U.S. to action against U.S. interests with regard to the Middle East is only one example of this altered focus. That wasn't what we set up NATO for.

Any world order other than that would be a reference that Petraeus really needs to define if he intends it to be intelligently discussed. If it is a reference to supranational organizations such as the EU, good riddance in my opinion. If it is a defense of the wildly proliferated galaxy of NGO's for all the international good they're doing, I'd like to hear precisely what that is and what it is that is threatening it. If it is some weird cabal of unelected international gnomes attempting to sway world resources into some mystic direction for our own good, thanks but no thanks. They can look out after themselves.

19 posted on 02/01/2017 11:18:11 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Cold Heart

Thanks for picking it out. I think you have to know more about the entire meeting etc.


20 posted on 02/01/2017 11:18:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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