Washington drives the world to warThe 80's called and they want their foreign policy back? What an idiot.
Washington has lost Crimea. Instead of admitting that its plan for grabbing Ukraine has gone amiss, Washington is unable to admit a mistake and, therefore, is pushing the crisis to more dangerous levels. Russia, China, and Iran are in the way of Washington's hegemony and are targeted for attack. The attack on Russia is mounting.
There are bad guys in the world. Pretending they don't exist, and pretending you can reason with them, is not a valid foreign policy.
If this is what a "reset" looks like, I'd hate to see continued failure! Perhaps now would be a good time for some of that "flexibility" that President Obama talked about with Medvedev.
This is one of the reasons I sometimes find it hard to be a Libertarian. I honestly don't know what we could have done with Ukraine, but I know the result isn't good. I'm a firm believer in picking one's fights wisely, and fighting them well ... and letting everyone know that's what you're going to do. Hopefully, that means fewer fights. Personally, I think we've done a not so great job of picking them, recently, and a worse job of finishing ... which is why we have Ukraine.
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ReplyDeleteAs for isolationists, they had their day in the sun in the run-up to WWII. The unrealistic nature of isolationism has never really recovered from their part in impeding America's mobilization so about their only political utility is to belabor any American foreign policy that doesn't stop at the high water mark.
One might argue that isolationism didn't work so well inWW!, either ... but it might have i Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq 2 ...
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