We Won; Let’s Bring ‘Em Home Now!
September 11, 2001! A date we all remember and a date we all can recall exactly what we were doing when we saw and/or heard about the planes being flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. We were glued to our television sets and radios waiting to hear about the 4th plane: Where was it headed? The White House … Congress? And then we heard that several Americans on the 4th plane fought the terrorists and forced them to crash the plane in an open field in Pennsylvania – Heroes! In all the tragedy … Civilian heroes!
Heroes as heroic as our forefathers who gave their lives at Lexington for “the shot heard around the world”! White and black Americans; Christians and Jews laid down their lives to free us from the tyranny of King George and the heroes of 9-11 laid down their lives in our first battle against terrorism! We may not be able to recall their names but their sacrifice will never be forgotten!
Many wanted to excuse the attack because of this nation’s stupid foreign policy and it is a stupid foreign policy! But there is no excuse to take the lives of 3,000 innocent people to draw attention to a policy that meddles into the internal affairs of other nations! You make those changes by getting your diplomats to tell our diplomats to “butt out”! And if your government hasn’t got the guts to do that, you change your government! That was the solution Osama bin Laden and his useful idiots should have used but they would rather slaughter thousands of the “infidels”!
But it’s too late for reason so we vowed to kill Osama bin Laden and his useful idiots … We have killed many thousands of them and we finally killed bin Laden! Hoo-Rah!!
Okay; we won!! Let’s bring our troops home! We have no excuse to kill more Afghans – We are not “nation building” and the government we helped establish is Afghanistan is as corrupt as the Taliban so I don’t think we want to be associated with this scum either!
We have no reason to still be in Iraq today (if we had a legitimate reason to go there in the first place!). We have been at war for 10 years and finally killed the rabid bin Laden; we have sent our troops back for 4 and 5 “tours” of duty in a war zone (I never figured our how that can be called a “tour”)! We now have thousands of amputees and men and women with PTSD who may never recover – How many more thousand do we want to ‘sacrifice’ to “save” the Afghans and Iraqis from themselves? I say NONE! It is up to the Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, Egyptians, Libyans, and the rest of the Middle Eastern nations’ people to decide what kind of government they want and do not be surprised if they pick another dictator because they have lived with oppression since the 7th Century and they are comfortable with that!
In his “Farewell Address”, Washington warned against foreign influence in domestic affairs and American meddling in European affairs. He warned against bitter partisanship in domestic politics and called for men to move beyond partisanship and serve the common good. He called for an America wholly free of foreign attachments, as the United States must concentrate only on American interests. He counseled friendship and commerce with all nations, but warned against involvement in European wars and entering into long-term alliances. The address quickly set American values regarding religion and foreign affairs, and his advice was often repeated in political discourse well into the twentieth century; not until the 1949 formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would the United States again sign a treaty of alliance with a foreign nation. Washington's position about the forming of political parties did not prevent their creation, which continues to the present day to the detriment of the nation!
“I deem one of the essential principles of our government, and consequently one which ought to shape its administration, peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” Thomas Jefferson, 1801 Inaugural Address.
John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy (1821):
“ … But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. … ”
You can read the entire speech; it is very moving:
Why haven’t we listened to their astute counsel? The neo-cons, who have administered our ‘foreign policy’ since the end of WWII, will say, “We got caught with our pants down (militarily) at the beginning of WWII and we can never let that happen again!” All of us can admit that we were ill prepared for WWII: FDR and the Fed were still doing all of the stupid spending trying to end the Great Depression but were just putting us deeper and deeper into it! Japan’s attack on the U.S. was just the ticket to “save” FDR’s administration … He’d been trying for almost 12 years to end a financial collapse, some say created by the Fed, that would have corrected itself in less than 2 years, had the government stayed out of it! But that’s a topic for later discussion.
It’s our foreign policy in question here and trying to ascertain how that got us where we are today: Deeply involved in three (3) wars in the Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya; tens of thousands of our military personnel in 135 countries around the world (check it out: http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance8.html); and virtually every nation hates America! Why? Our government gives tens of billions of the taxpayers dollars to foreign governments and call it “foreign aid”! China needs foreign aid? Saudi Arabia needs foreign aid? Brazil needs foreign aid? Iraq needs foreign aid? Three oil-rich nations need “aid” and America’s largest debt holder needs “aid”? Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest supporters of Islamic terrorism, the vermin we are sending our boys and girls overseas to kill, our “foreign aid” supports! Why?!?
The foreign policy “experts” say: “There are five major categories of foreign assistance: bilateral development aid,
economic assistance supporting U.S. political and security goals, humanitarian aid, multilateral economic contributions, and military aid. Due largely to the recent
implementation two new foreign aid initiatives — the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Global AIDS Initiative — bilateral development assistance has become the largest category of U.S. aid.” And let me add: “Blah, blah, blah, blah … ” You will find it all: http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/31987.pdf; 35 pages of double and triple-speak!
The truth is our government thinks they can buy friends and I contend it ain’t workin’ out so well! Most of these “friends” vote against us most of the time in the United Nations but they will vote for any initiative that the United States pays for! They smile and hug us when we hand them the money of hard-working Americans and they are still smiling when they shove the knife in our back! They aren’t even good enough to classified as “fair-weather-friends”! Fair-weather-friends abandon you when you run into tough times – These collective jackasses abandon us right after we give them the money!
But the neo-cons and ‘progressives’ still fight to give away our wealth but for different reasons: The neo-cons want to buy friends and the ‘progressives’ want to redistribute America’s wealth! A pox on both their houses!
We need to stop listening to the neo-cons! They spoke with wisdom when they said we couldn’t get caught with our pants down again – What we let them do beyond that is what must be changed! No longer can we be used as the World’s Policeman! No longer can we be used for “nation building”! No more can we afford to put tens of thousands of our military personnel in 135 foreign nations!
Our national foreign policy must be modified to now be: “To assure Peace, we must be prepared for war!” Another way to put it was said years ago: “There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.” - George Washington
We must let the world know that we are the “Beacon of Liberty”, not the meddlesome busybody we have been in the past, and we believe in self-determination of all people but if they are stupid enough to attack America again, we will “put a boot up your ass; it’s the American way”! In the same manner, we must end our affiliations with the United Nations, NATO, SEATO, etc.! Tell those nations they must settle their own differences and, if they care about their people, they will settle those differences through negotiations rather than war! ‘Trading partner’; not the ‘neighborhood enforcer’!
As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently put it: “I deem one of the essential principles of our government, and consequently one which ought to shape its administration, peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
We have slain the monster – It is time to bring our troops home and rebuild our family!
