I haven't made any false statements, I have made some comments that suggest possible links. Some of which are certainly fair as political statements, IMO.
Surely you haven't been unaware of the anti-American trend of thinking in Europe over the past decade or two? 9-11 put a temporary dent in it, but only temporary. Basically, a principle reason France and Germany actually cooperated (which is rare in the history of Europe) to spearhead the formation of the EU was to try to create an economic and political unit that could compete with the US for economic and political leadership of the world. They knew that none of the European nations by themselves could pull that off, but hoped that the combined power of Europe could. And maybe it can. We'll see.
Frankly, I'm an isolationist. I think we should pull every one of our troops back home. From Germany, where we are spending tens or hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars shoring up their economy, from Japan, from Taiwan, from Korea, from Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, everywhere. Bring them all home and post them along our borders. Protect our borders, period.
Terminate all our military treaties, NATO, SEATO, all of them. Tell the UN delegates to go find another home, we don't want them anymore. North Korea invades South Korea? Not our problem. Iraq takes over Kuwait, Saudia Arabia, even Turkey? Not our problem. China invades Taiwan and restores it to Communist rule? Not our problem. Use our defense dollars for our own needs, and let other countries look after their own problems.
Be satisfied with our trade relationships as our sole interaction with other nations. Become as, say, New Zealand. Who hates New Zealanders? Nobody. Because they don't interfere in anybody else's lives. We did our job in the last century, spending lives and money saving the world from Germany twice and bringing down communism in the USSR. It's time now to retire from the world state and tend to our knitting.
That's my personal preference.
But if we're going to play the world policemen, take on the role of the sole superpower, then we should do it right. And IMO that means going after Saddam now.
If you actually read UN Resolution 1441 --
here it is:
un.int
No UN member state can honestly say that Iraq has complied with the resolution.
No one can truthfully deny that under the terms of the resolution Iraq is in material breach of UN demands. Yet again.
It's time either to fish or cut bait. Either be the world enforcer, or withdraw totally and let the rest of the world carry the burden for this century that we carried in the last.
I prefer the latter.
But if we choose to do the former, we need to do it right.
If the world had acted as it should have in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 to enforce the Treaty of Versailles, millions of lives would have been saved.
The world waffled, equivocated, diplomaticized, and produced World War II.
Those who do not learn from history are, indeed, destined to repeat it. |
