George Washington Must Be Spinning...
Posted by fivedollargold 10 years, 2 months ago to Politics
The incomparable Miss Zito nails it.
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Oh. Yeah.
Damned Mexican invasion.
Well, that's going on, not because we CAN'T stop it, but because the politicians are playing silly buggers with the future of America.
I do not think it is possible to dismantle the Marines. My friend Mr. Harter passed away two years ago, but I am told by other Marines that death does not excuse, and Harter is still on duty.
Europe, including England, Spain and France continued to make trouble for the Colonies at the frontier and England was suspected in encouraging the Barbary Coast Pirates to attack American ships in the Mediterranean. The difference in Washington's desire for an strong military force was to defend the individual rights of the citizens of the new Republic. Luckily, that was a large enough task for that great man and he did not have to run all over the globe searching for opportunities to spread democracy to all the citizens of the planet. The example of the United States and its success was once what it took for that task, not drones or boots on the ground.
But I can't help but come back to, we'd be a lot better off as a country if we stopped these unending police actions throughout the world. We've lost a lot of young men and money and Iraq and Afghanistan are in worse shape than when we went in.
In this case, they're accidentally proposing to do the right thing. Our military is supposed to exist to defend us from aggression - not traipse about the globe killing people and creating new enemies. Our military does not belong in most of the places it is sent these days. The Feral government wastes lives, treasure and good will in an ongoing effort to generate profits for the war business. You can't sell bombs to the government until it uses up the bombs it already has…so the administration (Bush or Obama) is constantly looking for new places to drop the old bombs.
Now if you think the US should be the world's policeman, you'll reach a different conclusion. But if that's part of the Feral government mission, let's revise the charter. Amend the Constitution to read, "The US military shall be deployed to invade countries and kill people to ensure that businesses that make war materiel shall remain profitable and politicians who pander to this mayhem are re-elected."
Bush and Company knew there were no WMDs, but Saddam had to go regardless of the morality.
In some ways the demise of the soviets was the worst thing to happen to liberty because it removed the only thing that kept the US military (controlled by corporate interests) from doing unconscionable things, the acts of war criminals. The America I was raised to love for its morality and ethics has already been destroyed. Only people like us can restore it, and voting won't get it done.
No military power can be trusted. NONE!
No I don't support the idiot Dems either.
But I don't think it in our self-interest for the Soviet Union to be restored.
What you're suggesting is that Tony Stark provoked the Russians into invading the Ukraine so he could continue making and selling the Jericho.
On 911 would one, or a million, more troops have done anything about the airplanes being hijacked?
For a bio-chemical attack on a city, or a dozen cities... How many troops would make a difference?
Standing armies going into fields to shoot at each other pretty much ended with WWII. Now it's squads with objectives in mind and all sorts of technical assistance.
The nature of war has changed. It's time for America to fight in 2014, not 1914. Fewer troops, more technology. More subtleties with cyber war (like we did to Iran with their centrifuges, but we didn't).
"we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Dwight D. Eisenhower January 17, 1961
We should also remove ground forces from Japan. What force is needed in the region is naval power and associated Marines for a quick reaction force.
Air transport needs to be increased so that power in the form of tank and heavy infantry can be rapidly deployed throughout the world. We also need strategic alliances and partner governments to where these forces can be transported and assembled.
"How many men do you have at (a location I have forgotten)?" Goering asked.
"About five thousand", the Swiss officer replied.
"I see," Goering said. "So what would you do if I sent ten thousand men into that area?"
Without batting an eye, the Swiss officer replied: "each of my men would have to shoot twice, sir".
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The soviets learned from Afghanistan. When will those *#&%^!)@ idiots in the Dark Center study a little history and shake off the shackles of enslavement to banksters?
We are moving into a time in this country where we are reassessing our priorities.
Unfortunately, the politicians making the cuts will have to go through the process of change in a very clumsy manner because so few have any deeply held historical perspective nor philosophical view of life.
Funding a military for DEFENSE (not offense) is one of the few purchases that our tax money is supposed to be funneled into. Unfortunately, the military has become a sort of entitlement program for pencil-pushers and rule-obedient non-thinkers.
We engage in endless wars of attrition for NO rational national self interest. We take down dictators in nations that haven't the philosophical ability to self-govern and then wonder why the REAL enemy overtakes the situation where we left a leadership vacuum.
We trained the Taliban to fight off the Russian invasion ... and then when we invaded Afghanistan without a clear-cut strategy and with suicidal Rules-of-Engagement for our troops we scratch our collective heads with amazement that the Middle East is historically called: "The Graveyard of Empires".
I realize that our President is an anti-colonialist and that he views our military and the way that it is run as the problem with this nation. To a certain extent he is correct. The fact remains, however that George Washington was correct in stating that the best defense is a strong offense. Deterrents do work ... especially with the sort of enemies that we face today. However the type of defense that we need is changing and only the most analytical thought involved in the remake of the military will be acceptable and appropriate to maintain the future of our nation's defense.