<<You're only 25, according to your profile, and so didn't live through the cold war. I can tell you that if fear of a situation blowing up into a worse situation was sufficient basis for invading a foreign country, we would be on at least WW VII by now. For decades the whole world lived on the almost daily expectation of a superpower explosion. Fortunately, people with other than your political/military philosophy prevailed.>>
LOL! Well, that is a bit of historical picking and choosing. I do believe the whole philosophy of containment was based upon just that idea that "stop it now, or it will spread." We didnt interfere where we thought a conflict would spread? How about Korea? Arming Western Europe, Greece and Turkey? Arming Taiwan and sending a carrier group to the Taiwan Straits? Intervening in Vietnam? Arming the Muhadjeddin? Arming Pakistan? How about invading Lebanon? Grenada? Secret wars in Honduras and elsewhere? What about escorting tankers in the Persian Gulf? Desert Shield? The list goes on and on. Fact is the US has always been aggressive in defending what it considers its national interest. From the bombing of Tripoli (in the 19th *and* 20th centuries), to the sending of US marines into Lebanon, people with my views have always prevailed over handwringers and bed wetters. You want a list of Presidents that shared my views? Adams, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy (what was the Cuban missile crisis? A nice Carribean cruise?), Reagan, Bush. Thats what I could pull off the top of my head... |
