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Category Archives: Foreign Policy and International
Forward Deployment
Both Foreign Affairs and CATO are writing on the issue of forward deployment of American military forces.
They are starting from the wrong place.
Deployment of military forces is driven by strategy, which is downstream of politics, serving a political goal.
Rather than discuss the best way, or where, to deploy forces, why not backup and discuss the goal? Once the goal is agreed upon, strategy follows.
What is the goal of deploying forces forward in Europe?
If it is to defend Europe, what are we asking those forces, and the American taxpayer to defend?
A) A continent that does […]
Posted in Domestic, Foreign Policy and International, Politics, War and Terrorism
Tagged China, europe, islam, military deployment, NATO, Putin, Russia
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Here Comes Another Dumb War We’ll Refuse To Win
So it looks like Kim Dum Idiot is aching for war.
Here are my thoughts, FWIW. Anyone able & willing to educate me is welcome to give it a shot. But if all you want to tell me is what we CAN’T do as we sacrifice tens of thousands of our irreplaceable kids, and another few trillion dollars, on a peninsula able to defend itself, in a war 10,000 miles away that we will refuse to win… I’d say you have your work cut out for you.
Given that in conventional war the side with the most artillery tubes wins, […]
Posted in Foreign Policy and International, War and Terrorism
Tagged DPRK, korea, norks, war
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They Are Killing Us Now
How does one explain to a sentient adult that we have the capability to destroy the enemy killing our children… and are choosing not to use it?
How does one explain to history that in the most important endeavor of mankind – war – we have been running FROM, rather than TO our most productive weapons? War is about killing; lack of productivity means killing MORE. How is that not insane?
I continually post that we – the West – must accept that Mecca, Medina, Qom must be annihilated, that the killing FOR the ideology will not stop until the […]
Posted in Foreign Policy and International, War and Terrorism
Tagged combat, islam, islamist, muslim, terror, war
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Crossroads. The Near and Far Enemies – and Our Future
The law and the morality of a society are what the citizens/subjects are willing to put up with. It’s might makes right, regardless of what one may think or believe.
The might of Christianity and of Western Civilization has made our – unique – view of morality, human rights, etc., the dominant one, and therefore “right,” but it is foolish think this would have been the case had Christianity and the West not become the mightiest of civilizations.
It is equally foolish to think our rights exist for any reason other than our willingness to destroy any enemy attacking them. […]
Posted in Domestic, Politics, War and Terrorism
Tagged darwin, islam, trump, Western Civilization
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Memorial Day 2017
Two of my three kids were born in the mid-1990s. America – the country that defeated the two most modern and powerful military forces in history, across the entire planet, on land, sea and air, in 3-1/2 years – has been in ground combat with illiterate, unorganized, untrained, ill-equipped savages for nearly their entire lives. They have no recollection of an America not at war.
This is shameful.
My dad was born in 1912, raised a Quaker, and fought in the Pacific Theater of WW2. Why? He was an American. My mom was born in 1930, orphaned at 5, raised […]
Posted in Baby Boomers, Domestic, Foreign Policy and International, Politics, War and Terrorism
Tagged Eisenhower, GWOT, Ike, iraq, islam, islamism, korean war, Mao, massive retaliation, nuclear weapons, nukes, shinto, stalin, Terrorism, Vietnam, war on terror, World War Two, ww2
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