regime change is bad?<\/a><\/p>\nUS interventionism in WW II made things worse for a short time, especially in Germany. So we shouldn\u2019t have sought to change Hitler\u2019s regime? Washington and Jefferson were right all along about entangling alliances in European affairs? Is that what we\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n
Wouldn\u2019t really bother me that much.<\/p>\n
The European Union is about to collapse because Germany won\u2019t subsidize Greece and the Russians can\u2019t pay their bills because the Saudis are winning the oil price war while a bunch of vicious Middle East tyrants may be replaced with different vicious Middle East tyrants. Nothing I can do about any of it and for damned sure, Obama won\u2019t. Boehner and McConnell don\u2019t seem to have a clue between them, so I don\u2019t count on the Republican Establishment for anything, either.<\/p>\n
The \u201cradical shift in American foreign policy\u201d sought by the Times requires a courageous leader: Winston Churchill, fighting on the sands and beaches; Harry Truman, ending the war by dropping the bomb; Ronald Reagan, growing our military so fast the Russians collapsed their economy trying to keep up; Margaret Thatcher sending England\u2019s baby flat-tops halfway around the world to kick Argentine ass over some tiny islands nobody really wanted but damn it, they\u2019re ours.<\/p>\n
No such American leader in sight.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh, I think there are. In 2016. If we deserve them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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