| fintstone |
08-02-2024 05:29 AM |
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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6
(Post 12295969)
This is correct. America First Isolationism, no longer wanting to be the world's policeman and "no new wars" makes the U.S. a paper tiger.
The worst part of the new evolving world order is autocrats/dictators/tyrants are now working together/helping each other to evade U.S. sanctions.
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I would more blame poor/weak leadership from elected officials and a failure to make those that attack our country pay the price. Accepting plea deals for the 9/11 mastermind Kahlid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) and two other terrorists awaiting trial on Guantánamo Bay is a good example of this. The death penalty was/is the answer (or someday, some weak leader will also trade them for hostages).
Why do folks take hostages? The same reason crooks rob banks. It works...it is where the money is. When it stops working or the risk/reward ratio is too great, it will end.
Our willingness to play around (start wars) that do not directly involve U.S. interests (that we are not willing to fight) is the issue. Too many call for wars that they do not want to pay for with their own blood or treasure. We cannot even recruit enough to fill a peacetime military. Warhawks do not seem eager to enlist or send their own children.
Proxy wars are the worst...because we trick some other fools into dying for our political whims ...and we abandon them (because the reality sets in once the enemy shows they have more backbone than our leaders...and few Americans are willing to die for some CIA-led coup). Even fewer are physically and mentally capable of serving in our current social-experiment military. That doesn't mean that the same would be true to save/protect our own country/countrymen.
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