That is a wonderfully isolationist view you got going on there. I am sure that is part of the reason that China and Russia are gaining ground on oil supplies that used to come here, now under contract to go there.
No one said that we are subservient to SA, but they have a relationship with us in the region, and are of American national interest. Hell, even Barry bows to the Saudi King.
So it's isolationist to say that we shouldn't be forced into doing things by Saudi? By saying that we're sovereign, I'm being an isolationist? We can have all the friends we want in the area, but they still don't get to dictate our military. "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." -- Thomas Jefferson. It's time to heed the words of Jefferson. Just because we're friendly with another nation does not make us that nation's attack dog. They're still on their own for their defense.
"plain fact"? Why? Because you say so? Because you have over time, and arm chair quaterbacking come to this conclusion? Tell me, should we consult your crystal ball before we take any movement as a nation, to make you happy? Get outta here with that talking point crap.
Get out of here with your deflection crap. Because all the data at the time said that Saddam not only DID NOT have a weapons delivery platform capable of hitting the United States proper, but also had demonstrated no actual intent to strike the United States proper. The FACT (maybe you forgot what that word means) is that Iraq was of minimal threat at best to the United States of America.
Tell that to the liar n chief, Obama.
I would, but he's too busy reading "How to **** over the Republic" by George Bush.
When is the last time that was in play? WWII? And how many demo's have used the military to advance their goals around the world since then?
The last proper war was indeed WW II. Last one we clearly won. Everything else we've named differently as to avoid any of the constraints and limitations the government is supposed to have upon it in regards to the use of our military. The military protects us. We created it, we man it, we fund it; it's for us. If other people want to be defended, they have to defend themselves. It is not our job. Our government is not authorized to play World Police.
I see, so you are not in favor of being number one, you'd settle for 10th place or so....
Number 1 is great, but we don't need to try to take over the world to get it. We could...you know instead of spending trillions on wars (do you bitch about the deficit at all?), not do that and invest a portion of that into other things. All sorts of science and technologies which can be invested into which would make us number 1. Have the world's best, strongest military which is only used for actual defense (not made up defense for emperial forever war), the worlds best tech, the worlds best science. We don't need to be bombing Iraq and Libya till we're broke to be number 1.
Another liberal mantra from you....Look, this country has wasted far more money in the past 40 years on social engineering, and progressive tripe than has ever cost with the military engagements.
We're spending massive amounts of money on the war. You want to take some programs we've had, aggregate it up for several decades, add in some other stuff, and say "hey look...this one is nearly 1/10 the number!" and pretend that means something? **** if it's between funding 50-60 years of "social engineering" or forever war....I'd take the social engineering (what ever the **** that's supposed to mean). I'd rather have neither, but social engineering is **** tons better than aggressive, offensive war.
Hey, I'd like to drill our own oil and put our dependence to SA and the ME out of the picture all together, think we can do that though? Not a shot.
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**** oil, we're America. You saying we can't come up with an alternative? Jesus, who doesn't want America to be number one now. "Hey guys, we can't do anything about this oil thing and we certainly aren't smart enough to find a way out of it, so hey let's do everything Saudi Arabia tells us! That sounds like a great plan, heeuck." Yeah...great plan.