Megyn Kelly to Dick Cheney: "Time and Time Again, History Has Proven You Got It Wrong" on Iraq
Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 11 months ago to The Gulch: General
This interview with Megyn Kelly is about the
op ed piece I posted by Dick Cheney.
op ed piece I posted by Dick Cheney.
We left troops in Europe and Japan as much to ensure those nations didn't slide back to their old ways as to prevent the spread of communism. We should have done so in Iraq, and we should do so in Afghanistan as well.
Not leaving a stabilizing force behind didn't help the situation in Iraq any. That is true. However, if after Europe, Japan, Iraq, and Afghanistan, we haven't learned that nation building is a waste of time, we should have our heads examined. The reason we do it is not to mitigate the spread of communism. The reason it is done is to enable the right wing cronies to support the Republican Party in much the same way that Democrats enabling unions starts the same vicious cycle on the left of the political aisle.
Likewise, the unions, particularly teachers' unions, reward Democrat politicians in exchange for pillaging the rich to increase the salaries of union employees. This is most true at the city and county school level.
What have we gotten for our nation building? The only country we helped rebuild that is worth anything to the United States is South Korea, and even their support for us is tepid. We get virtually nothing for our nation building. These countries should appreciate our effort. They don't. They mock us. It is time to be more selfish.
I was thinking that your comments were relating to the payments to the MilIndComplex to outfit the military. While there is some truth to that, most of the expense has been paid directly and indirectly to the foreign nations in the form of base leases, local materials procurement, and the money that troops stationed there spend in their economy instead of in ours.
No country gets to economic prosperity because other countries make them so. This is a corollary to AR philosophy. They have to get there on their own.
On the one hand...I'm against the nation building thing for all reasons stated: it doesn't work, it creates enemies, and the looters take advantage of the situation providing weapons, and the entire supply chain behind the effort. It perpetuates the military industrial complex and like all business they want a growth industry. Unfortunately they are dependent on the American public voting for hawks and interventionists and many of our politicians are all too happy to oblige for their contributions.
On the other hand...there are totalitarian regimes out the that essentially enslave their subjects and treat others worse than property (see honor killings and female castration). Like most, this conflicts with my morality.
To top it all off, the left has seized upon the general belief that Bush and Chaney were lying to justify the current administration's continuous fabrications. Like that is a reasonable justification.
Once upon a time we set the example of what liberty and freedom could create and others tried hard to emulate us. But, it's a long process and it's painful to watch other humans suffer at the hands of tyrants in the interim. Is it too late for that to work again or in this era of instantaneous and graphic information have we become too squeamish?
Without other evidence, it is my hypothesis that said WMD are either buried in the Iraqi desert or were spirited to Syria.
What is so good about this, is that Cheney gets his 'say', and the liberals cannot claim that it was a 'softball' interview!
"Do you still beat your wife?"