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Right the best thing to do this is to have a major review of our priorities in light of our financial situation and also keeping our strategic interest in perspective. We need not spend time on staging Mideast summits every now and then since there is not going to be any solution to the problem. They are not our major concerns. Our biggest one right now is the threat coming from the Pakistan-Afghanistan area and we should be concentrating our resources there. The forces that are sitting in Japan and Germany should be brought back home completely or be reduced by 80 to 90 percent of what they are now and concentrate on forces already in Korea and deploying naval forces in the international waters near Japan.

Since the non state actors (especially the so called Islamic Terrorists) operating in unstable countries of the Middle East should be dealt with strengthening the regimes fighting them and also concentrating on small rapid deployment commando units to go in and fight and get out as soon as the mission is completed. This is the main issue that should be concerning the U.S. right now. At least with this realignment of our priorities we can reduce our defense budget while at the same time make our military highly concentrated in what is the real threat. As for the rhetoric that the Republican Party will take a tough stance on Iran, we need to understand that if we can target the sanctions with highly precise financial tools, it will be more effective than launching an ill conceived attack and opening up a can of worms which will not be financially, militarily and strategically feasible for us and our allies.

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What are our priorities is highly debatable and will always be with different views of the Republican and Democrats and also of the Military and the Economic teams of the President. But this should be assured that in this day and age where we are accumulating debt and the world is weary of nation to nation wars and the so called non state actors are very active all over the place, we need to make sweeping changes which people are not yet talking about. As I have said in my previous posts we don’t need to keep thousands and thousands of forces in Germany and Japan, since those two countries are mature and economically powerful enough to handle their securities.

Even if we want to keep our forces, it should be in the thousands and not in the tens of thousands now and the host countries should pay for all the expenses since we are should not be paying for it by borrowing money from investors. The Korean peninsula is a case where there should be forces but other than that we should be withdrawing our forces from all the stable countries including Iraq and not Afghanistan and in order to project our power, we should be investing in the navy. Another thing is that we need not treat every region with a prism of national security since we cannot be everywhere because of our financial situation now and also in the future.

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This does not mean we have to spend more money in order to create a Brand New world order. It means that we can prioritize our strategies so that we don’t stretch ourselves too thin financially and militarily and still fulfill our obligations to our allies. By obligations we mean that with respect to some treaties and other mutual cooperation. Since the end of the cold war and the realign of the terror threats we need to be in a state of quicker responses than the mentality of massing large amount of forces over a period of time. Our responses to the disasters should be quicker, faster, swift and monetarily manageable with help from other richer allies and not rely only on the U.S. taxpayers.

We are still in a state of denial of what we can and cannot do with respect of projecting our power and helping maintaining peace around the world while at the same time accumulating massive amounts of debt which sometimes goes to waste or we lose track of it or give aid to allies who waste it anyway or squander it without helping our cause or our interests (and you know whom I am talking about). I mean to say that how long we are going to waste our precious resources on foreign affairs/adventures when we are already in a deep rut due to this recession. There is only so much we can do as a superpower and we should ask our allies to share the burden of security and also we should realign our priorities.

It’s Time for a New World Order

The world has been changing very fast lately and the U.S. has been trying to keep up with the changes but it is falling short. It has not realized yet that nations are not listening to it as much as before. This may have been due to many factors but the main one I believe is the ongoing war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial situation we are here in now. Our foreign clout is becoming less and less and we have been unable to exert our influence in affairs that matters most. We have been frivolously trying to waste our energy in places where we should not be doing it in the first place, but due to some influential lobbying and misguided priorities we have been doing it on and on in almost every administration without getting any results.

The first new world order was done during the Elder Bush administration and it did not help that much since there was an increase in the defense budget and the world order did not last that much with terrorists’ attack in 1993 to world trade center and also the chaos that was left from the ashes of the broken Soviet Union. Then the 9/11 terrorists’ attack happened and we went to hyper drive to solve our problems militarily and with recession of 2001 and now this recession has come a need to realign our priorities to engage with the world through a New World Order based on realistic and not idealistic assumptions