🚀 go-pugleaf

And what exactly will the United States do with the influx of armed services
members?  Unemployment is already high enough, surely you aren't going to
cashier them, are you?  And don't think they'll settle for picking up trash
on our country's degrading highways...

"Slartibartfast" <noone@nonesuch.orgasm> wrote in message
news:ucKL9.4822$KW2.212858@twister.austin.rr.com...
> The USA is bound by treaty and tradition to defend not only Europe and
North
> America, but also the Balkans, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, South
> Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan, Australia,
and
> Latin America.
>
> A few of us are simply asking, "why?"
>
> Its time for the USA to bring home its armed forces from all over the
globe,
> to abolish these entangling bilateral and multilateral treaties, to tell
the
> United Nations to take a 3rd World Hike, and to have a policy of "trade
with
> all, foreign entangling alliances with none."
>
> Being policemen of the world has resulted in us being hated by the world.
> The world is full of ingrates on their part, and we are filled with
> self-righteous moralists who send other people's sons and daughters to
fight
> and die on foreign land for ingrates.  Enough is enough.
>
> Isolationism?  No, trade and tourism and whatnot with all - but empire
with
> none.
>
> As for the weapons of mass destruction - well, if they use them, and if it
> harms us, then we can and should act.  Finding the criminals who destroyed
> the World Trade Center should be a priority.  Saving Turkey and rebuilding
> Iraq so they can both oppress the Kurds should not.
>
> Alan
>
>