Very true. Well, here's one thing I think we get. We have finally laid down the marker to the crazy assed Middle East Muslims, that we are not their friends. It's about time we stopped being mealy mouthed about that. They don't share our values and we need to be very clear we will not make moral equivalencies. The price we will pay is that the hostilities will get worse. I hope we're prepared for that. I think mostly in economic terms and that's why I like peace. We're so indebted that we simply cannot afford more war. If I were President, I'd look for a way to bring a 20 year peace about, so that we can focus on rebuilding our economy, paying down the debt, and refocusing our armed forces towards economic and cyber warfare, while maintaining a quick strike strategic capability, including robots, and a strong, modernized deterrent nuclear capability.
Economic warfare should be our focus. I think most Americans have forgotten that military supremacy is completely dependent on economic supremacy...and we're losing our wealth and strategic economic advantage to China VERY fast. Just because they have 1 billion people doesn't mean we can't win at economics. We CAN, but we need to have a government focused on partnering with business to win our economic wars. For the last 8 years, we have had a government that was openly hostile to business. Right now, 80% of Americans are unfavorable to openly hostile to business. Trump is a friend to businesses but he business CEOs are lukewarm or openly hostile to him. We have a GIANT f__ng problem here in the US. If we don't fix our business/government partnership, then we will lose our economic advantage, our wealth, and what prosperity there is left. Then all the problems of the middle and lower earners in this country will multiply out of control until Socialism is ushered in with a Bernie-like candidate and then all hell will break loose. We may even slide towards a Venezuela-like outcome. Socialism is a country killer. Even China figured that out. They now have a Politburo controlled Oligarchic-Capitalism to replace their former Communist-Socialist model. Russia replaced their Communist-Socialist model with Dictatorship controlled Oligarchic-Capitalism. So our two biggest competitors realized Socialism killed their competitiveness against the US, back when we were a well functioning Republic controlled Capitalist country. Now, we have the idiots in this country moving us towards Socialism, which every damned country in the world has figured out is an economic system that DOESN'T WORK, and yet, we're going to try it again here? WAKE UP AMERICA! It's 2018! Read your history books! |
