Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump plans to withdraw the 2,000 US military members from Syria.\u00a0 Neo-Cons are upset.\u00a0 Defense Secretary Mattis is resigning.\u00a0 The establishment consensus is Trump is making a horrible mistake.\u00a0 Is he?
George Washington warned against entangling alliances.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty good historical precedent for Trump to bring our troops home.\u00a0 Yes, the neo-cons reply, but the world has changed since Washington\u2019s time. We need to police the world.\u00a0 Failing to do so is isolationist.\u00a0 Failing to fight every battle means people will die, nations will fall.
So?\u00a0 The world, to Americans, means Christendom.\u00a0 True, that world has changed.\u00a0 Rome ruled for 500 hundred years before it fell.\u00a0 A thousand years later, England, France and Spain were the great powers; then the Axis Powers for a decade; then the nuclear nations calling themselves the Security Council; power constantly changing.
But England is no longer a great power (despite having nuclear weapons).\u00a0 It contributes a few hundred people to each global conflict, not enough to tip the scale.\u00a0 As a power, they\u2019re a has-been.\u00a0 So are France, Spain, Rome.
We\u2019re headed their direction.\u00a0 The economic and military domination we enjoyed after WW II is gone.\u00a0 We should stop pretending, stop over-extending.\u00a0 We should pull back to our own shores, fortify against the coming global crash, hope to ride out the long night while the rest of the world burns.
Socialism is a disease and we\u2019re facing an epidemic.\u00a0 The treatment for an epidemic is quarantine: save the ones you can, let the rest die.\u00a0 Isolation is not a bad thing for a nation, it\u2019s the responsible thing.\u00a0 Put America First.
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I’m starting to think we’ll need that internally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Build a wall around California, Illinois, and the mid-Atlantic states. And make them pay…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…well, no, let’s not get fancy . Just build it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump plans to withdraw the 2,000 US military members from Syria.\u00a0 Neo-Cons are upset.\u00a0 Defense Secretary Mattis is resigning.\u00a0 The establishment consensus is Trump is making a horrible mistake.\u00a0 Is he?George Washington warned against entangling alliances.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty good historical precedent for Trump to bring our troops home.\u00a0 Yes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69586,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583\/revisions\/69586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}