American aid should come with certain influences. Our foreign policy throughout the post-World War II era and the later Cold War was based on our ability to create a global capitalist economic system (IMF, Breton Woods, etc.) and offer an economic handout. The Soviets lost because they could not keep up with the dollar and our regional influences that denied them room to play. But to callously toss economic threats in such a public manner (take names?) over a controversial international issue that had only to do with internal political and campaign retardation is so far beneath the American reputation. But sure, let's take aid away so that Russia or China can sweep on in and assume the influential roles in regions around the globe. Let us undo what we have achieved since 1949...um...cuz.
But this is just more of the same current theme. Conservatives will cheer for this, because they appear to find great joy in making things difficult and angering even our allies. It's the whole irrational bitterness thing that is represented best by their uncontrolled lashing about. Their fear of having to share this world with the rest, which has only grown within the capitalist system that we wanted them to thrive in, has them applauding unstatesman-like insults to NATO, the Brits, the UN, Arab governments, the Chinese, etc. In the end, their irrational and ignorant fears is placing Russia and China in a leadership position as more and more start considering that American global leadership is on its way out. Russia, less so, but even Putin looks like more of a leader to the world than the orange garbage in the White House. Whatever happens with Syria, it is going to be a Russian victory over the U.S. on many levels. And by playing this shallow "America first," or neo-isolationism, nonsense, rising economies like India and China have found more room to maneuver. Ultimately, Conservatives are opening the doors and red carpeting the path for China's rise - exactly their fears.
It truly is a special time when Americans enthusiastically applaud a world where almost the entire UN and the Brits and Russians stand together with the Arab world and condemn the U.S. over the continued idiocy of a seated President. The man, and his flock of dip****s, are an insult to what America used to be. We are actively giving our moral and economic superiority away because the children are throwing a temper tantrum over a world that they refuse to understand.
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