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Now let me tell you what I really think
Robert Ringer
Posted: March 15, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
>(Based on the historical evidence, an outrageous person might suggest that we are but two nukes away from making close allies out of Iran and North Korea.)
One would hope that we would recognize that we have made two BIG mistakes before and hope that we’d learn.
If we weren’t mucking about in everyone’s business, then we wouldn’t have troops in (what is that number) ~170 countries. And, irregulars (i.e., spies, bureaucrats, politicians, and such) tripping over each other.
We’re dangerous enough to bring all the troops home and be immune to attack and invasion.
The Department of Defense should be limited to doing just that “defense”. Not nation building. Not meals on wheels. Not disaster relief.
>I hope my words today were straightforward enough for everyone to understand. As they say, be careful what you wish for, or you may get it.
Sure, we did real good in a traditional Third Generation War, gooferment against gooferment. Ignoring the fact that gooferment has been manipulating people since the War of Northern Aggression. (Wilson, elected on peace pledge, steers us into WW1. FDR steers us into WW2. etc, etc, etc.)
How well a gooferment can do in a Fourth Generation War against a state-less adversary appears to be in doubt. Your Third Generation War “solution” would work against North Korea or Iran (It’s a little tough on the innocent men, women, children, and animals in those countries. But what’s a little breakage. Collateral damage.) But it’s ineffective and inefficient in dealing with a Fourth Generation adversary. And, is meaningless in a Fifth Generation War where an armed motivated people oppose the gooferment on their own turf (i.e., note the Russian’s Afghan experience).
>I’ll bet a lot of readers now wish I would stick to being facetious rather than straightforward.
No, I wish you would stick to finding us moral, effective, and efficient answers to our problems.
I’d start with the principle of self-ownership and follow it to its logical conclusions. We have no moral right to drop your “solution” on North Korea, Iran, or California.
If we stopped meddling in the affairs of others, brought our troops home, and became a neutral “porcupine” like Switzerland, then everyone would be a lot happier.
If we ended the dole in the US (i.e., welfare for everybody and every business, regulations and laws that politicians put in to reward friends and punish enemies, taxing everything), then we’d be “wealthier” beyond our wildest dreams.
If we ended the gooferment’s skoolz, then we’d have the smartest people in the world for real (i.e., one wag calls skoolz “the government’s propaganda and reeducation pre-prisons”).
If we had honest money backed by gold and silver as the Constitution specified, then we end the inflation tax and return to the gerbil wheel of impoverishing ourselves and enriching the gooferment.
As with any porcupine, I’d just like everyone to be left alone
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