Suppose we can agree to see each other points. Just not how we got here.
My belief is that Americans forgot they where a empire and then wanted to have their cake and eat it too.... Then complain they don't have the empire benefits anymore.
Yours is slightly different HOWEVER we end up at the same conclusion IMHO.
We didn’t forget, we were and mostly are a reluctant empire when you get down to it. It’s a growth problem much like Rome and other empires faced.
How or why the last 20 years of war in the Middle East did not produce the hoped for results is immaterial. They didn’t!
To not expect a citizenry to question the wisdom or motives for it is entirely reasonable.
In order for the US to act decisively as an empire in the Middle East would have required us to wage total war.
In what segment of the American population, including many here. Would be ok with waging in war like that. One that 95% would consider a war crime’s.
Now consider that statement with my public position taken against Israel being accused of war crimes.
We lost when the clowns in academia and politics decided it was a noble cause to abandon the Shaw and let Marxist revolutionaries and Islamist take control of Iran.
That is the failure, everything since has been the rest of us dealing with the the aftermath.
One that I do not regard as an unforced error. It was a premeditated geopolitical attack on the west both externally and internally. And it wasn’t just allowed in the west. It was facilitated and encouraged. Think asymmetric war.
We have used our gold and blood endeavoring to sustain this “rules based world order”. Which is nothing more than a loosely organized globalist government.
They took Brenton Woods and tried to once again fulfill W. Wilson’s pollyanna agenda.
Here’s the thing, nations or empires do not act as global moderators or referees. They act in self interest! Period full stop.
To expect any nation or people to act in another way is foolish and naive.
Want to know how we must act if we are to be an empire or nation who wants to survive?
Rumors run wild about what Russias FSB and Alpha group did to Hezbollah’s leadership families after four Russian diplomats were taken hostage and one killed.
here’s one of the more gruesome ones.
Still another version has the Soviet operatives kidnapping a dozen Shi’a, one of whom was the relative of a Hezbollah leader. The relative was castrated and shot in the head, his testicles stuffed in his mouth, and his body shipped to Hezbollah with a letter promising a similar fate for the 11 other Shi’a captives if the three Soviet hostages were not released.”
Here is another clue, we stopped winning wars when we started being concerned about war crimes.
Guilt is seems is a much more effective weapon to silence a nations cannons. Than returning fire.
I’m not completely disagreeing with you. I’m only saying we’ve been swimming up stream trying to be an “empire” or “preserve this rules based world order”….. whatever you want to call it.
Sometimes what the Soviets did in Lebanon is required. But as you have pointed out, we don’t have the stomach for it.
Well then, what to do? what to do?
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