Posted on 01/21/2018 9:16:15 AM PST by caww
I really do not care who invades Syria so long as they kill each other off. Figure every dead Islamic soldier/terrorist makes a better world for rest of us.
It will once again be Constantinople. Turkey invades Kurdistan.
The Turks fought bravely in the Korean War, as also the Afghanis. Kurds trusted the U.S. in Iraqi War I, and were left swinging in the wind when Saddam retained power. Kurds have better asymmetric defenses than Turkish tanks can handle, so expect this to involve Russian, Syrian, U.S. troops soon. Wonder where Israeli DF will be.
Isolationism by any other name.
It worked in the 18th Century.
It might have worked in the 19th.
We are eternally blessed that it died in the 20th.
Do you now resurrect it as a 21st Century political zombie?
...and — mid you — I’m not trying to turn on the snark; we’ve a very real interest to protect in the Middle East, and it isn’t oil.
Politically it is a Main Street axiom that “As California goes, so goes the country.” Israel stands as the hinge upon which the weight of global politics rides. It is in our inherent interest to act in that sphere with that axiom at the forefront of our policy.
Sorry. Simply do not agree. Also certainly hope that the old axiom about California is dated, worn and not true.If the country follows the example of California then it is lost. The US can defend itself, stand alone if necessary and can continue to prosper by dealing with only the rational and the friendly. Those that wish us harm need only fear us. We do not have to engage them. Certainly don’t want any more young boys from Kansas to die or become maimed in the Mideast believing that they were defending their own country.
“Those that wish us harm need only fear us.”
Not gonna happen with capacity, alone.
If there is a manifest lack of will to exercise that capacity?
No will.
No fear.
And when nobody’s afraid of us anymore, the world OCONUS descends into chaos and darkness, as it began to do, before.
TWICE.
In the 1940’s we were shaken from out idiocy, and rose in the nick of time to take our place in the assertion of liberty across the globe. But the forces seeking to take it, had only arisen out of their observation of our commitment to focus inward. Our isolationism emboldened formidable enemies of freedom in the world beyond our borders.
Back then, weapons tech was such that our delayed response did not contribute to irrecoverable loss for everyone else on the global stage. We do not now enjoy that same luxury; a global takeover could be implemented with breathtaking speed, and our delayed response would seal the fate of the rest of the world, after which time our own fate would be gravely questionable; perhaps only a matter of time. Our survival — and that of all the fine, young men in Kansas — would be at the highest imaginable expenditure of men and material, and in no wise guaranteed.
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