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The US Cannot Afford To Be The World's Police
Submitted by James E. Miller via Mises Canada,
The recent shooting at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by Islamic extremists has reignited the debate on how to handle the threat of terrorism. The renewed talk is understandable.
As horror extraordinaire H.P. Lovecraft wrote, the “oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” It’s natural to be anxious about bodily harm, especially when the media amplifies the threat, whether legitimate or illegitimate.
While some lawmakers – mostly Republicans – propose measures to strengthen America’s security complex, the Pentagon recently announced the closure of 15 military bases in Europe. The plan is expected to save up to $500 million a year. The bases will be returned to the countries they inhabit. Outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel assures there won’t be any job losses however.
Republican critics argue the move is premature in the face of escalating terror threats and an emboldened Russia run by its power-hungry leader Vladimir Putin. At the same time, these detractors correctly point out that the U.S. must start tightening its belt. An $18 trillion debt is a national embarrassment.
The question for these conservative lawmakers is: If not now, when will fiscal responsibility actually be practiced?
The American military presence in Europe is a leftover of the Cold War and the threat of communism’s spread. Yet the Soviet Union collapsed two decades ago. Marxist ideology is now seen as a failure. Putin’s provocations aside, the West is no longer threatened with losing its way of life to the Communist Manifesto.
Europe may be crumbling under the weight of its own super-state economic controls, but it is far from facing another war to end all wars. The real threat to its stability is the lack of assimilation by immigrants from Northern Africa who are not fully vested in the liberal culture of the continent.
The rise of nationalistic parties like the UK Independence Party in Britain and National Front in France reflect a growing anger by working class voters. As Europe tries to reorient itself in a more globalized, more open world, United States military bases aren’t going to restore order within its borders.
Security hawks in the U.S. remain wary about base closures, fretting about elongated times to mobilize in case of an imminent threat to our allies. They presume American armed forces are needed for any conflict across the Atlantic. Any reduction in presence, these saber rattlers declare, is treasonous appeasement. Their speciality is calling any and all retreat “a Neville Chamberlain moment.”
All this fist-shaking about exiting the global stage amounts to a bunch of empty defamation.
America’s global presence isn’t waning. In recent years, President Barack Obama has announced plans for a military buildup in Asia to confront possible threats like a growing China. Drone strikes continue to pound the Middle East and Africa, with a recent strike killing an Al-Shabab leader in Somalia. Clearly, Washington’s imperial reach is not heeding the advice of the late senator and noninterventionist Robert Taft.
The conservative philosophy is supposed to be about reverence for tradition and a prudent outlook on human affairs. But modern conservatism is popularly defined by maintaining a large U.S. military presence across the planet. The position, which was injected in the mainstream thanks to Bill Buckley and his reputable magazine National Review, is in many ways incongruous with actual conservatism.
History proves a government can’t be fiscally responsible and the policeman of the world. All great empires were befallen by the inability of resources to keep up with ambition. From Alexander the Great to Rome to the great British Empire, hegemony doesn’t last forever. The U.S. government guarantees security to over 35 countries and has troops stationed in over 146 countries.
Does such an astounding presence – completely unmatched by previous empires – really sound all that sensible?
The countries with a notable U.S. military presence aren’t just protecting themselves under the banner of our mighty armed forces; they are slagging on their commitments to their own safety. As conservative commentator Pat Buchanan asks “Why do we tax ourselves to defend rich nations who refuse to defend themselves? Is the security of Europe more important to us than to Europe?”
If conservatism is truly about promoting individualism and fiscal responsibility, there is little sense in picking up the tab for nations that can and should meet their obligation for self-defense.
A safer world shouldn’t depend on the generosity of one superpower. Sovereignty and cooperation do better in keeping the peace rather than one country unilaterally patrolling every inch of Earth.
Shutting down a dozen bases in Europe won’t curtail the leviathan-like footprint the American government imprints on the world. But it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
The threat of Islamic terrorism remains very real in the West. It’s also not as cut-and-dry as Fox News makes it out to be. The kind of people who would pitilessly kill children to establish a caliphate are evil. That’s without question. But their motives are part driven by zealous ideology and part revenge for over a century of domination by Western powers.
Understanding that complexity, and that restraint often prevents the type of problems that aggression is supposed to solve, helps deepen a conservative mind. Immediate repulsion and rash action are the stuff of radicalism. Republicans should remember that next time they viscerally denounce the president’s latest foreign policy proposal.
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Another "freedom seeking" libertarian who I'm sure supports a dictator like Putin.
Sheeeit, we can't even afford to keep locks on the southern gate.
this article disappointed me. I would expect mises writters to have a better grasp of our 'islamic terror' threat. Every single threat that has been stopped by our govt has been almost entirely of their own making by entrapment practices of the FBI. I wouldn't be satisfied with a couple base closures either. I want them all closed, and bring back every single one of our military personnel
" I want them all closed, and bring back every single one of our military personnel"
Wow. That is the most anti-Semitic statement I've read all day.
Team Chosenitis Parasitis...
it can't afford to be the world's police, so it became the world's criminal
We might as a Roman, if you can find one... History repeats itself over and over again, while the numpties in charge haven't a clue...
Oh yes they do Keyser, they do.
The numpties (or those that run them anyways) know history. We (th epeople) know a bastardized, victorized version of it.
To think that the cabal is dumb is a dangerous meme.
Maybe it can't afford to be the world's police, but Obama, Kerry et al. are happy to do whatever it takes to become members of the team.
The author is technically correct. However we have to act as the Saudi's mercenary force because they are paying darned good money to own part of our media (FNC anyone?) and buy our politicians both Dem and Rep.
America can't afford NOT to be the worlds police.
And Americans are only just begining to feel what it means to be policed.
The germans lost WWII
The Nazi's won WWII
Once we understand that, everything becomes clear.
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
Glenn Greenwald
Yes but in today's world the question we must as is "to police or be policed, and by whom?"
Sharia law comes quickly to mind.
*caution*
http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/sharia-law.html
<<who I'm sure supports a dictator like Putin>>
No, he supports a dictator like President Barky. Sounds like you didn't really read the article but don't worry, you didn't miss anything.
This article has so much wrong with it, that Ima go ahead and thread-jack.
In other news, anyone else hear a rumour of the imminent overthrow of Porky the Uke? According to this story, Porks has not been quite competent enough to suit even the NATO crims. No return on investment there you see. They wanted WW3, or see Russia destabilised, and instead they got this heart-breaking situation that just makes everyone cry and NATO look, well, evil and incompetent.
I'd be interested to hear how credible people find this rumour.
Here are the links from my source, Fort Russ:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/01/tsarev-poroshenko-will-be-overthrown...
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/01/1222015-normal-0-false-false-false-e...
I've heard the rumor. It runs something like "The Right Sector is angry over his running of the war in the east, they demanded action. The recent ill timmed offensive was caused by pressure from the Right. The battle field defeats are coming thick and fast now, so Right Sector has even more reason for a coup".
Credible? I can't verify any credible coup threat. The Right Sector is strong on the street, but has no viable plan for a coup or what to do with Kiev if they did carry a coup. Ukraine has no money, thus taking power means, you have no power if you take it. The economy is melted down, somehow the USA is proping them up with emergency billions from military black budgets. This can't go on, because others in the security complex want those billions wasted on Urkaine's military battles.
I see infighting after this magnitude of this defeat sinks in. The fascists will scream and march in the streets, but a coup? I give that a 10% chance tops. Anyways, American and the CIA decide when and if a coup happens. Even the fucking CIA can now see the horse they backed is lame. The idiotic fools of Ukraine's right sector are so stupid and useless that I am sure they disgust the CIA who tries to get them to do America's dirty work.
In the important battles of yesterday, the Right Sector Battalions ran away and left an entire brigade of Ukrainian army to be over run by rebels. Even as I write, Nazi Guad Battalions are leaving another vital front and letting the Amry face the rebels alone. The Right Sector and Nazi Guards are covering themselves in shame, when the people find out the cowardace of Right Sector, their influence will begin to sink.
Thank you, Jack Burton. Your comments always give me food for thought. I find your comment comforting although I have not had time to think it over much yet.
"Ukraine has no money"
yes, rumor is, all their gold was loaded on a plane and flown off to (fill in the blank)
Ps. Anyone else notice the US media blackout on the Ukraine. You would think Real Nazis would at least get someone spitting up at the NYT
"and flown off to (fill in the blank) "
Apparently Frankfurt am Main as it is known to the locals.
Well, you know you can always trust your fellow Nazi's. Most of the time. Once in a while. It's just a mis-understanding amongst murderous thugs; I'm sure they'll work it out.
Thanks Jack. I posted recently that your updates have been valuable information and was looking forward to some more. While I was looking at a whole bunch of video links on the recent fighting at Donetsk airport, I saw some captured Ukrainian army soldiers talking to a local news team (It may have been the one captured by "Givi" on youtube, but I don't know the link as my browser history is automatically deleted).
One was saying (In Ukrainian) that his unit was told that it wasn't an all out assault on the airport. He was told that it was a rescue mission. Seems like army personnel unwilling to fight are being told lies to get them to join in any blitzkriegs the nazis in Kiev dream up.
<<that his unit was told that it wasn't an all out assault on the airport. He was told that it was a rescue mission.>>
YHC I heard this too, from a few sources. It seems to explain why they - including their relatively high-up commander - apparently ran so recklessly into what turned out to be an obvious suicide trap.
One solution could be a coup of the military.
Throw out the gringos, prepare elections about a federal state.
I wonder how the US Marines in Germany will fight against Putin's nuclear missiles?
They are more likely to become policemen in a civil war between White Frenchmen and African Frenchmen or between Western Ukrainians and Eastern Ukrainians.
We're not the "World's Police"; we're the worlds dictatorship; the worlds skull breakers and murderers and thiefs. We're the world's Mafia goons. We're the World;s Gold Thief's and country destroyers. We're a Roman Empire with no mind.
I used to think of the USA as the World Policeman when I was a little less capable of critical thought..... now I see it like the schoolyard bully bashing up weaker kids with his small gang of thugs in tow.
We're the cops of the world. Nothing new, actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL0sqh06H94
So much wrong with this article it's hard to know where to start.
Yes, they want everyone to jump on the one World Government.........Under Controls.
A freedom loss that would never be given back.
Offer one point- get the ball rolling. I read comments to learn something- not sit here wondering what it is you disagree with. I will start. I find the premise of the article- that the U.S. wants to be the world's police force disengenuous. The US government wants to control things in my opinion. Our government is about securing resources and opening markets for big corporations- not saving foreigners from real or imagined threats.
But I do agree we cannot afford to engage in the current setup whatever it's true intent. So offer up something and if my assessment is wrong let me know. I want to learn something- I don't want to be right. I have no vested interest as I believe every government is the same- opportunists. Every nation has strengths and weaknesses- none are perfect.
OK, since you asked so nicely.
Start with the title: the MIC is not and never has been "police", world or otherwise. Police are supposed to enforce the LAW. Imposing USUK "law" on other countries, is NOT policing.
Next, the first sentence:
<<The recent shooting at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo by Islamic extremists has reignited the debate on how to handle the threat of terrorism. The renewed talk is understandable.>>
Hebdo did nothing to ignite debate on terrism. It did, however, ignite debate on governmental credibility and the use of false flags in currency wars. Oh, and made quite a few marketing geniuses rich. (Charlie sticker, anyone?)
Throughout the article, the author also seems to blame "Republicans" for everything and for some bizarre reason, his essay leads up to a call for those same "Republicans" to unfetter President Barky. If he really considers Barky hampered in his plans - at all - he'd need to address the banksters who own him. "Republicans" have nothing to do with it. Seems also to feel that US military presence in any country has (or ever had) anything to do with the "communist threat".
He keeps referring to various outrages by Putin, while failing to specify even one. Considering that to date we have pretty much NO evidence of Putin's "aggression", the lack of at least one credible reference - or even an acknowledgement of how controversial such an opinion may be - tells me that this author is uninformed.
<<The threat of Islamic terrorism remains very real in the West.>>
Absolute bullshit. The threat of bank and government terrorism, has become very real in the West. You really want to reduce Islamic terrism? Try getting NATO to quit murdering Muslims in the Middle East, bet that'll help.
The fact that he apparently believes that the US MIC is interested in security. That he believes in the "communist threat". (What year is this, again? Does he know that in the 21st century, communists are doing just fine in North America?) That he apparently believes the MIC's anti-Putin propaganda. That he makes NO reference to bank and MIC money, and empire-building motives, in discussing why and where MIC bases are located. A true Barky believer who seems to believe every word from the MSM concerning "world threats" (Putin, Muslim, terrists of course) but is concerned because it all might cost too much and isn't really that necessary any more, as if it ever was.
Let's check out his last sentence. We leave the reader with:
<<Immediate repulsion and rash action are the stuff of radicalism. Republicans should remember that next time they viscerally denounce the president’s latest foreign policy proposal.>>
Hear that, Pubbies? You better quit denouncing Barky's foreign policy "proposals". Wading through this this feels like a big dip in Stupidity Lagoon.
I'll stop there since you requested only one, and truthfully, this would be a wall o' words if I tried to be complete. Is that enough to start, or is more requested? I wouldn't have taken the trouble - I expect more people will come to the obvious conclusions as they read thru it. But, seeing as you asked... I was always a sucker for good manners.
+1 Renfield.
yes well done, if I may add a few..
"America’s global presence isn’t waning" - no just its influence, and paper currency doesn't count
"The kind of people who would pitilessly kill children to establish a caliphate are evil" - so when do the US and Israel go on trial?
Thanks; you did a good job.
good cop is a dead cop or somting like that...
Someone posted a fantastic article last week. It takes LEW 5 bodies to track down a viable lead. Here's the kicker. 4of those 5 bodies is/are sitting behind a computer monitor.
I don't want to demean those LEW in any way, but give me a fucking break! It takes 5-6 people to deliver realtime badguy stuff?
Long> Starsky & Hutch bitchez/
Blue jean cutoffs, raybans, and one badass red Ford Torino. 429 in that badboy?
Fuck Yeah!
"the West is no longer threatened with losing its way of life to the Communist Manifesto."
-because the West adopted the Communist Manifesto
where Cuba is our friend now..
Don´t think they become friends, because they can take in some air after 50 years of strangling.
Probably not the single economic reason for the Soviet or Venezuelan declines......
CB = "yes we can"
Open with some crap about Lovercraft?
I'm NOT even gonna read this shit.
Sure the US can be the world's policeman.
Remeber that bullshit about Iraq oil revenue paying for the invasion and rebuilding?
We should be charging so much for policing the world that the Citizenry pay not one cent in taxes their whole lives...
...& the first place we shoud be savagely policing is our BORDERS.
+1 Throxx
Didn't read it either.
In which case you missed this:
As conservative commentator Pat Buchanan asks “Why do we tax ourselves to defend rich nations who refuse to defend themselves? Is the security of Europe more important to us than to Europe?”
Right, because being occupied by a bunch of MIC bases brings Europe SO MUCH security... it's all about "defense" dontcha know. For the security of the kiddies.
Article was garbage. You guys above who didn't read it, you saved some time that I foolishly spent.
Oh, and by the way, "taxes" haven't paid for a thing, not for decades, and certainly not for the Anglo-Zionist MIC bases all over the world. Taxes have nothing to do with this, although I'm sure the MSM thanks James E. Miller for writing as if they do. (Keep voting, sheeples...)
$500 mil/year saved for 15 bases is peanuts. We spend a couple Billion per month on our current "scaled back" war efforts.
I think the real move is to place US bases ever-eastward. Protecting England, feh. The limeys have their own surveillance state and bureacracy to keep their bloated, drunken populace in line. Germany however, needs to be watched (and occupied) like a hawk. See, they still actually build stuff. They also will "look eastward" for alliances and trade. Let's face it, the limeys and frogs barely make anything useful. Russia has energy, raw materials and 180 million people, and wants to be included in Europe proper. I think Germany is willing to deal with them on those terms, much to the chagrin of the US. I suspect the Brzezinski crowd is still keen on its Grand Chessboard and containing Russia. Lately, I feel like it's a repeat of the 70s. Bombings and terror in Europe, especially after certain countries' leaders openly disagree with US policies and/or fail to support a particular state bordering the Mediterranean...Gladio part 2 (or maybe 3 by now).
<<$500 mil/year saved for 15 bases is peanuts.>>
Yup. But "saving" means very little in the era of QE. Saving will matter on the very same day that taxes do, when a government is constrained to spending strictly within its taxing means, and not a day earlier.
<<I think the real move is to place US bases ever-eastward.>>
No doubt. Does anyone here remember that NATO had an explicit treaty NOT to do this?
How about this question: can anyone here name a treaty that NATO has honoured? (Munich, Non-Proliferation, START? Hint: These are not good examples for an affirmative answer.)
I'm pretty sure the US no longer follows contract, property, criminal, constitutional (or any other) law
shit, when it comes to "terrorism," they don't even follow the laws of physics
"Germany however, needs to be watched (and occupied) like a hawk. See, they still actually build stuff. They also will "look eastward" for alliances and trade. Let's face it, the limeys and frogs barely make anything useful. Russia has energy, raw materials and 180 million people, and wants to be included in Europe proper. I think Germany is willing to deal with them on those terms, much to the chagrin of the US. I suspect the Brzezinski crowd is still keen on its Grand Chessboard and containing Russia. "
1. Anyone who is still concerned about Germany should be very fucking concerned with CHINA.
2. I still maintain that the great un-realized alliance that would have commanded, and may yet come to command, a true global peace -is that of the US and Russia. Russian Bolshevist and US Fascist Oligarchies have ruined the partnership that might have secured post WW2 peace.
3. The US may in fact still be acting on some level to fetter and contain German ambitions. That is not beyond concideration.
WW1 & WW2 scars entrenched the MIC paradigm. Eisenhower warned us.
Lenin was a problem; but, it was Germany that nearly swept the European board -and it was Russia that stopped this from happening as much as any nation. While Russia fought her ass off it was only the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean that bulwarked the US. IF New York had been as close as London it would have been bombed mercilessly by Hitler and the factories of Pennsylvania and Michigan assailed as surely as were the factories of Great Britain.
The MIC did not want the Cold War to end. Russia was never embraced. There was no Marshall Plan, no response on par with that was extended to Europe for Russia when the Reds yielded. Russia suffered an internal war, a long cold civil war of sorts with communist ideology and cruel gulag repression. Sadly, no one cared when she finally shook it off and staggered out of the asian wildness...
4. The world is still simmering with racially charged bitternesses left behind in the wake of the British and European colonial era. This encompases everything from latent latin discontentments in Central America, to repressive Middle Eastern dictatorships and unstable late founded dynastic rule.
India/Pakistan. The Punjabist cultural structure cannot be unbroken.
N.Korea/S. Korea. The DMZ is still the largest minefield in the world.
Israel/Palestine. Saudi Arabia. Iran. Iraq. When Britain had done her best/worst the Americans came in to prove that however good the intentions might be; that meddling in the affairs of others is often as not a vulgar exorcise in ever escalating partisan cruelties.
Even festering 'African-American' post-emancipation cultural revulsion is symptomatic of lingering colonial grievances and ill conceived interferences.
Policitians are bought and discarded by the Oligarchs according to their deeds. With so much money in politics, there's no room for honest politicians. The same politicians make the rules and we obey.
I'm as conservative as they come and know Pat's positions.
"The US Cannot Afford To Be The World's Police" has been hashed out on numerous occasions ending with "no shit"? Especially today; no budgets, no plan, no leadership, nothing...just a willing and able CB that'll gladly backstop the continued void in responsible governance.
"As conservative commentator Pat Buchanan asks “Why do we tax ourselves to defend rich nations who refuse to defend themselves? Is the security of Europe more important to us than to Europe?” "
IMHO, Pat Buchanan gets it wrong when he talks of 'Europe' or of european nations. The question should be:
“Why do We allow Politicians to tax us to defend and bailout rich CORPORATIONS who refuse to act prudently? Is the security of CORPORATIONS more important to those politicians than our economic security?”
The MIC is not protecting American national interests.
The MIC is protecting CORPORATE interests.
& more often than not those very corporations could give a shit less about the Untied States, it's people or laws or culture or history; -ALL they care about is that her politicians pledge the nations power and prestige and military to protecting their corporate interests.
Tax inversions, off-shoring, H1B visas, drug and human trafficing money laundering, etc.; -are all sure sign that these corporations and those who command them have no love or respect for the people and character of the United States. These neo-globalist bastards more often that not care nought but to buy her warships to secure foreign ventures and bend political power to force place insurance and debt on to the citizenry.
The might of the United States is not the world's policeman nearly as often as it is the corporate mobsters' muscle.
Exactly.
You cannot have the NWO of our elite without a massive American military, point to any so called leader in the west calling for us to disarm..that is why our military is massive. it's a keystone in the march to one world.
Yeah!!! I'm waving my black pompoms, Communism is dead, long live the USSA! USSA! USSA!
We may not be able to afford to police the world anymore, but we sure as hell can afford to spend $5 billion to destabilize a government and start WW III !!!
Actually it can...that is the only thing the US has been good for in the past several decades. The US will be the model for the world police - Israelis think they have that game but they are kids.
Stupid, evil and lot's of money tends to write that story and that story is the same as WWII Germany - AKA usa 2015. It is an old story but this time it is different - this time it is global (thanks to our corporate sponsors we give our lives to every day..to better them for the greater good).
It is all cultures, all countries and all people this time. The future has always been bright because of this or that before. Now, this and that are the same thing and they are coming for you if you are not in the billionaire club. Was slavery in the US bad? Yes. Will the next epoch in the US dwarf that no matter what color (except fiat green)? Yes.
We will be the World's Police because we are REALLY BAD at it!
Now move along!
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along..
As long as the pork comes back to the defense states and the ctrl p key still functions the empire will continue. May the farce be with you Puke!
Indeed. It is all about the Pork and the profits. Congress exists to hand out favors through the defense budget. Favors and profits, and high paying jobs. It is said a single congressman can approtion billions directly to friends and supporters every year through the Pork of the military budgets. So yes, it will continue as it, until it can't continue!
Complete bullshit! Didn't we just hand over a blank checkbook to Wall St. in the last spending bill to cover deriv losses? Close a few bases to Save $500 mil? Pffffft. That's a just a teardrop in the ocean of spending dissappointments in the last decade. The bankers sucked all they could from USA in the last few decades, and now they've turned their attention to EU with more QE. Another wealth transfer from the working class to the parasite class. People are powerless vs the banker elites. They will continue to take until there's nothing left.
Remember the Fiat for your new car/hummer, Mansion or Rv did not exist before you went to the bank and had them create it. To all that run to the bankers and say "please mister can I have some more money" are the ones who empower them.
I realize it is very difficult to purchase RE another way but the Hummer/RV or that big addition to your house come on don't feed the beast!
Live within your means, starve the beast!
Are you implying we cannot print enough money to finance it or that young men it too committed to their full time jobs manufacturing critical goods to go wage war?
Now that is some heavy, dripping sarcasm right there Rider....I'm surprised it didn't singe my screen a bit... ;-)
I think a small quarter inch wrinkle appeared in the upper left corner of my screen
It sure as hell can't anymore and 25 years ago was the beginning of our end!...
When the Cold War ended peacefully there should have been the dismantling of U.S. military bases in Western Europe when the "Wall" fell as a sign of solidarity... But "No"!!! It got bigger. Much Bigger!... Then the European Union which was the biggest "red flag" of them all!
Opportunity costs of the worst kind!
Time for the three B's
Burn Baby Burn!!!
"War is a racket."
The DC US is the Capo of Zionism's rackets.
The banksters need to repay us.
This Jimmy Miller dude out of Mises CANADA says... "Marxist ideology
is now seen as a failure" and fails to back it up in light of the present
wealth transfer that the 1% is now sitting on? Frankly, Marxist Theory has come back full force since the Lehman Bros. Chapter 11, BuckO.
I cannot believe what an ass kisser this Miller dude is to the Republican
Party?????????????????????????????????????
wtf?
NOTE: Jimmy Miller out of Mises CANADA _must_ be an American IMHO. Ain't no fucking way in Hell that a Canadian would say shit like that about Billy Buckley n' the Re-PUBs!!! NO FUCKING WAY!
How about we just mind our own fucking business for like the next 100 years or so. Let's rebuild 'Murica.
Fugio
How's Yemen working out?
One thing: It's not just a century of Western dominance that motivates the islamists, who have been doing what they do since around 1400AD/CE/whatever year system you like, and they were pretty successful for a number of centuries. They had empires. These were the golden ages for them, and there is a yearning to have those golden days back. So there were the Crusades. And eventually there was the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the European powers at the end of WWI. OK, even if they got over all that, their book still encourages a global theocracy however fast or slow they can make it happen.
Anyways, yes there will be some desire for revenge against the "West" for all the invading and policing of the Middle Eastern countries. It's crazy though...millions of Jews, Xtians, pagans, Buddhists, and Hindus were harrassed, forced to convert, or killed.
Xtianity has a violent ugly past too, but they've pretty much reformed. I think so. The islamist ideology does not see the West as the final goal...just the current obstacle.
I do not fear muslims.
Upvote. Terrorism is only effective if people are terrorized.
Who works hardest to terrify the American sheople?
The Muslims?
Hmm.
IME, it's the government and the MSM.
Remember, they hate us for our freedoms and work diligently every day to destroy them.
"The US Cannot Afford To Be The World's Police" should be stated as "The US Cannot Afford NOT To Be The World's Police." By that I mean that all those lopsided contracts, favoring the West, negotiated by economic hitmen for years, have to be enforced by threat of violence. I think most of the 99% would be appalled (or horrified) by what is being done in their name to enrich global corporations.
There is a great book "Confessions of an Ecomnomic Hit Man"
True story about exactly that, economic hit men sent into these countries to negotiate very lopsided contracts to prosper the murican corporations.
Indonesia, Iran, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Equdor, Columbia. ect... Rape and pillage these countries and if they did not like the contract offered the CIA and Military would pay them a visit.
Lot's of Trey Parker and Matt Stone the last two days on ZH. And for good reason. They are rock solid.
'The kind of people who would pitilessly kill children to establish a caliphate are evil.'
'The kind of people who would pitilessly kill children to establish a caliphate, democracy or dictatorship by indiscriminately slaughtering the innocent with drones are evil.'
There all Fixed.
The USG is one great bucket of fail - $18T says so
He had me right up till that last line.. Really good article and then you have to make it seem as if Obama is above the fray?
Obama has been just as big a warmonger as GWB and even tried to force his way into Syria... Still trying.. Come on man don't act as if War is just a Republican plan.
War is a bit like Immigration in that the rank file member of the Dem party doesn't want it; however the establishment does as it is told. The rank and file of the Republican party wants our immigration laws enforced but the Repbulican establishment doess as it is told..
That's not to say that the rank & file conservative is for War... I'd say it's 60-40 which is not good but we are making head way... It's just we are fighting against the Corporate Media with internet blogs and youtube..
he lost me here : magazine Charlie Hebdo by Islamic extremists To blame MOSAD-CIA Gladio FF operation on Islamic extremists is very simple.
ITS ABOUT OIL AND THE CONTROL OF OIL.
Seriously does he think the US is trying to encircle Russia to prevent the spread of COMMUNISM?
The USA was at its best when it only cared about itself.
And that was when everyone was envious of it......not anymore.
"POLICE" ???
That's like calling RAPE a "massage".
You lost me at
"the West is no longer threatened with losing its way of life to the Communist Manifesto"
Don't give these morons any ideas...the U.S. government is well on its way to spending itself into complete collapse, and that's exactly what needs to happen. Onward, christian dumbasses!
The US is not the worlds police, it is the worlds goon squad. The guise of spreading an ideology called democracy is the marketing ploy. The real deal is for industrialists and political players, nothing more. Tax payer funded goombas.
I believe this is a cover for the what the US desires that it doesn't have.