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We should stop being the world policeman and ask local allies to bear most of the cost of military forces in those regions. A strong navy, of course, keeps our fingers on the pulse of international commerce and is essential.
You can't advocate for NOT being the world's policeman & have a say in how others accept our principles and our democracy. You can't want to stop being the police, yet patrol and enforce what you have investment in.
Not only better diplomacy but making our allies more responsible for their own defense military and monetary wise. Take Germany for example why do we have 30,000 troops there? are the Germans non trainable or stupid? I do not think so. I can see having a presence of say 1,000 troops like we have been doing all over Africa.
I am sort of encouraged that the war mongering rhetoric mostly from the right is less prominent now.
We're in Germany for NATO purposes only. We should have a 50,000 troop presence there.
The current war is the last gasp of a failed from the start military blunder that was never thought out or planned for properly. From that instant, it was doomed to be a drawn out, bloody and costly endeavor.
In Afghanistan the diplomacy was simple. Turn over UBL, have the Taliban leave, and there will be peace. The mistake was trying to do it with toothpicks and string vs. bridges and lives.
The current war is the last gasp of a failed from the start military blunder that was never thought out or planned for properly. From that instant, it was doomed to be a drawn out, bloody and costly endeavor.
In Afghanistan the diplomacy was simple. Turn over UBL, have the Taliban leave, and there will be peace. The mistake was trying to do it with toothpicks and string vs. bridges and lives.
Our wars of the last few decades have not been a blunder. they have protected British Petroleum's investments in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Royal Family, democracy in Israel, nonexistant Afghani terrorists and above all, created a trillion dollars of profit for the Military contractors. . Just think all these efforts have created the ENDLESS WAR and ENDLESS PROFITS. the relativly SMALL loss of men and women in these endevors pales in comparisons to the great PROFITS WE HAVE MADE AND WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE.
Follow the money trail folks. Always follow the money.
Not only did he not bring the troops back, he extended the Patriot Act, and never closed Guantanamo.
Obama ended the deployment in Iraq and set a date for Afghanistan. That being said, I agree that it fell short of his promises. It also proves that some of the criticism on Bush was unjustified.
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Originally Posted by TheHurricaneKid
But what good is being a warmonger, if being a warmonger will never bring you peace?
It is OUR OWN meddling in the middle east that brought us the enemy we have today. Who know when these enemies will stop fighting us?
You are correct that being forced to use the military is already a lost battle. The deterrence did not work.
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Military blunder?
