JimC wrote:Robert S wrote:
I'm nervous for the kids in the rest of the nations over there. They might end up throwing off their Shahs just to get Ayatollahs. But that's something the US should just wait and see about.
This is the key, I feel. Much of the world is rather sick of arrogant and paternalistic pronouncements from the guardians of truth and justice...
Me too. I'm very isolationist these days and fucking tired of paying to pull other people's fat out of the fire. They never appreciate it, and it never really does us any good either.
My preferred form of military intervention is to lob missiles and bombs from long distance, using nukes as required, to destroy all of the infrastructure of civilization in any country that attacks us or supports those who do attack us (including terrorist havens), and repeat the process whenever they stick their heads out of the caves to threaten us. No ground troops at all, just high explosives, rocket fuel, and nuclear materials for the particularly obstreperous and difficult ones.
Most especially no more "nation building." Nation destroying, absolutely. Nation building? Never. Compensation? Never. Regrets? None.
Act like civilized human beings and play nice, and we'll leave you alone. Fuck with us and you die, wherever you are, and so does your nation. You can do whatever you want with your own people in your own sandbox, it's their problem to fix, not ours.
Along those lines, I cannot understand why we haven't gone in and wiped out the viper's nest of pirates in Somalia like we did in Tripoli way back when. Now THAT'S worthy of committing our Airborne and Marines to, to rescue American citizens from savages. Then carpet-bomb the whole area whenever our satellites see someone trying to set up again. Fucking cowardice on the part of the President I suppose. An international interdiction zone off Somalia that simply sinks any vessel that's not under positive identification and control of military forces is what's needed as well. See 'em, shoot 'em, sink 'em and forget 'em.
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