07-15-2006, 11:46 PM | #11 | |
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It should not be our responsibility to ensure peace throughout the world? Screw the rest of the world. If they kill each other off, so be it.
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07-15-2006, 11:54 PM | #12 | |
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Historically nobody had a large army to protect all interests, so we would make alliances even with smaller countries so that bigger countries would dominate regions. The logic has always been China might become an aggressor and take economic advantage of a sector of the world which we deem economically important. Do you think Britain wanted British law accross the world, or protecting their perceived and actual economic interests?
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Europe generally doesn't in its heart believe that any thing bad will happen and that there is nothing that can't be worked out through diplomacy; a false lesson that their experience with each other living under the artificial umbrella we provide has taught them. The problem is we ARE economically interdependent and we cannot ignore threats the way they do, one because we know better, and two because we can't afford to have them or anyone else learn the lessons of Munich a second time. Sooo..... the only way we appease the world is being lying down and becoming weaker, literally. That would make them happy. Is that what we really want or should we just ignore them since by and large they are never going to help us in any case? BTW, isolationism is staying home. That is not what I am advocating. I do think that we should go through international organizations when that is useful for us to do. Cynical you say? That is what every other county in the world does too. We live at a time in history where these nations maximize their power in this way. We almost invariably are weaker when we interact with these institutions. There is no higher principle here of international unity and compromise that every one adhears to but us. These things are simply tools that every nation uses selectively when it suits their purpose. We are no different nor should we be. No one else in the world does things counter to their interests and neither should we.
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