Saturday, January 15, 2011

Is the world relying on US Military Power?

America has been providing military protection to the world for the last sixty or so years. We have now become the World’s Policeman without being compensated for it and we are naïve enough to go along with it. Unless the United States Military get involved, almost nothing gets done (for example, the Kuwait war in the 1990s, the Bosnian war and many other examples). We don’t have the money to pay for this entire defense but we are happy to provide protection to the world by borrowing money from the world. It is like we have become mercenaries for other nations. Our defense budget has now ballooned to more than 700 billion dollars and it keeps on going up with borrowed money to protect areas which are not even sometimes vital to our security interests.

If the nations who pay us to protect them can get their act together and have a united front, they can raise an army strong enough to protect them from perceived threats from bigger countries. But as long as they know that America is going to come to their rescue by raising real and imaginary boogeyman, they will keep on getting our protection and we will be sacrificing our men and women in the armed forces for other people’s weaknesses and cowardice. While we protect other nations, they are growing stronger economically while we are losing our competitive edge and getting more into debt. How long are we going to let this happen?

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