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U.S. 5% of world pop, cannot be it's cop.....

littlejoe

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America Cannot Continue To Function As The World’s Stripper Police

By Elliot Koenig

Over the past several decades, the United States has become increasingly entangled in foreign affairs. Time and time again, when freedom has been threatened in some faraway country, we’ve been the only ones to show up—often at great cost—and the rest of the world has grown accustomed to us taking the lead. But as vital as this role may have been, the truth is that America can no longer serve as the world’s stripper police.

Rebel insurgencies and violent upheavals will continue to shake distant nations, but the days of the U.S. always stepping in, blasting DJ Kool from a giant boom box, and gyrating around the room while we issue citations for being too sexy must come to an end.

Ask yourselves this: If a brutal regime commits genocide or invades a sovereign nation to plunder resources, why do we consistently take it upon ourselves to respond unilaterally by bursting through the door, placing the birthday girl under “arrest,” and then getting the party started? When faced with a power-hungry dictator, why must our nation be the sole Western power to straddle that world leader in his chair, place our officer’s hat on top of his head, and demand that he call us Lieutenant Jack Hammer? Pretty ludicrous, isn’t it?

Simply put, our current foreign policy is unsustainable. If a fledgling democracy finds itself on the verge of collapse or proves itself incapable of stopping a humanitarian catastrophe, we can no longer be expected to playfully throw the oppressed population’s hands against the wall and tell them to spread ’em like they mean it.

For far too long, the world has relied on the U.S. to play stripper cop, marching into hostile lands yelling “One at a time, ladies!” and slowly unbuttoning our skin-tight shirt before swinging it above our head like a helicopter. Just because we’re the most powerful country in the world—capable of bouncing our rock-hard pecs independently—does that mean that we should always be called upon to guide a crumbling nation’s hands over our sculpted torso?

At some point, the international community must learn how to wax their chest and rip off a pair of Velcro pants for themselves.

Of course, there will still arise occasional circumstances when it’s in our country’s best interests to suggestively thrust and flex in front of a semicircle of whooping onlookers on the international stage. The 20th century is rife with examples of times when the U.S. needed to act alone to protect our principles, typically by cueing up ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” and threatening to discharge our weapon if no one takes the shot of tequila clenched between our thighs.

But today, things are different. We’re not the same sexy superpower that can just go around the world pretending to handcuff people until two equally muscular reinforcements show up in their own skimpy shorts and aviator glasses. If anything, the European Union should take on a greater role in windmilling a billy club in front of their genitals and then riding it back and forth between their legs like a horse. They have more available resources to send a couple buff guys glistening with oil to deal with any escalating situation.

And if they’re not willing to step up, then that’s something the U.N. should take control of.

To be clear, I still believe that tyrants who use deadly force against their own citizens must be brought to justice, perhaps by taking an aggressive grinding position near their faces as they attempt to shield themselves with their hands and blush uncontrollably. However, any time a conflict flares up, the international community shouldn’t sit back and expect the same hard-bodied officer to always show up and give these dictators a steamy full-body frisking before declaring that they’ll have to take them all the way downtown.

As it is, we have enough trouble keeping our own naughty individuals in line here at home. Instead of repeatedly answering the call to a phony noise complaint overseas, our government should be making sure that every dollar that’s tucked into our neon G-string stays right here in the U.S., invested in priorities like infrastructure, education, and whipped cream.

We cannot make the same mistakes we’ve made in the past by attempting to clean up another country’s mess only to become mired in yet another interminable conflict. After all, we owe it to the brave American hunks and beefcakes who put on their tearaway uniforms every day to ensure that we only use them when absolutely necessary.

Unless, of course, the gig pays well
 

Steve

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We cannot make the same mistakes we’ve made in the past
http://www.theonion.com/articles/america-cannot-continue-to-function-as-the-worlds,36873/

we keep telling the liberals that, but they never listen.. :roll:

maybe satire will get through to them.. :roll: :? :???:
 

Brad S

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I'd like to be as isolationist as Ron Paul, but sometimes I'm not convinced we can remain uninvolved.

When Iraq was plundering Kuwait, and the west so reliant on Kuwaiti and Saudi oil, could the US stay uninvolved? Eagle ford, Bakken, and Permian have somehow reduced atrocity level of Iraqi violence. Anyway, we can't refight that deal, but the set before us now certainly poses unacceptable peril for the US. Pretty tough to stay out militarily.
 

hypocritexposer

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US foreign policy is supposed to be devised with the best interests of the US, in mind.

You don't allow terrorists to recruit, expand, build bases and gain strength, with the best interest of the US in mind...

...the radical Islamists are as much of a threat as the Nazis, or Soviet Union ever were, to the US, and the rest of the World.

Those that advocate "standing down", like OT and LJohn, are traitors at best.
 

hypocritexposer

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U.S. 5% of world pop, cannot be it's cop.....

How much of the World's military spending and hardware does the US have?

I believe this DOES enable them to be the moral "cops". Now all you have to do is decide what is moral, and what is not...
 

littlejoe

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the u.s. spends more on military than rest of the world combined.

It might enable them too---hardly entitles them too.

and it's unsubstainable.

and think what same amount of $$ could do for our own country or the whole world--if spent on constructive endeavors

'Beware the military/industrial complex"--Ike called that one right.
 

hypocritexposer

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littlejoe said:
the u.s. spends more on military than rest of the world combined.

It might enable them too---hardly entitles them too.

and it's unsubstainable.

and think what same amount of $$ could do for our own country or the whole world--if spent on constructive endeavors

'Beware the military/industrial complex"--Ike called that one right.

well that is revealing.

between a moral obligation and "entitled", you chose....
 
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hypocritexposer said:
littlejoe said:
the u.s. spends more on military than rest of the world combined.

It might enable them too---hardly entitles them too.

and it's unsubstainable.

and think what same amount of $$ could do for our own country or the whole world--if spent on constructive endeavors

'Beware the military/industrial complex"--Ike called that one right.

well that is revealing.

between a moral obligation and "entitled", you chose....

Yep-- Hypocrit- why doesn't our NAFTA "free trade" co-partner countries like Mexico and Canada spend 4% GDP on military spending like the US does-- instead of the paltry 1.3% Canada spends and the measly 0.5% Mexico spends :???:
Why don't they bankroll Israel (and the rest of the world) for a few years and let the US be like they are and spend it on the homeland and homefolks like Canada does .. :???:
 

hypocritexposer

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we spend $$ on the military and we keep the equipment...unlike the US which gives it away to police forces across the Country.

The US could be much more efficient in the way they spend. Lots of duplication, waste and fraud going on.

Canada was showing the US how to get it done with older equipment in Afghanistan.
 

hypocritexposer

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some US military technology was even given to the Russians, by Barry.

:shock:

and unlike the US lately, we don't spend our money on military equipment, just to give weapons to terrorists.
 

hypocritexposer

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Hey OT, how can you claim that the US does not spend enough money at home and yet claim that they only spend 4.8% of GDP on military?

What % of GDP is the total budget?
 
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hypocritexposer said:
Hey OT, how can you claim that the US does not spend enough money at home and yet claim that they only spend 4.8% of GDP on military?

What % of GDP is the total budget?

Doesn't matter- we're talking about being policemen of the world... I think the US should let Canada and Mexico (along with all the other freeworld that rides our shirttails) pick up the policing tab for a few years- and we spend it on things like Canada (and most the rest of the freeworld freeloaders do) such as healthcare for all, replenishing our SSI accounts, building our crumbling infrastructure, etc., etc. ...

Instead of the $15-20 Billion Canada spends on military expenditures-- you wouldn't mind spending $75- 80 Billion to put up your fair share would you... :???:
If all these countries paid their fair tax for our police work we do for them we wouldn't have to take $600+ Billion a year from the US taxpayers to do it...
 

littlejoe

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hypocritexposer said:
Saudia Arabia spends more as a % of GDP than the US, why not let them be the World's police?

good idear, hippo. say--would Canada throw in it's boat, tank and plane?
(too bad about their sub, but leastwise nobody got hurt)
 

hypocritexposer

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littlejoe said:
hypocritexposer said:
Saudia Arabia spends more as a % of GDP than the US, why not let them be the World's police?

good idear, hippo. say--would Canada throw in it's boat, tank and plane?
(too bad about their sub, but leastwise nobody got hurt)

how bout we throw you the anchor...
 

littlejoe

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hypocritexposer said:
littlejoe said:
hypocritexposer said:
Saudia Arabia spends more as a % of GDP than the US, why not let them be the World's police?

good idear, hippo. say--would Canada throw in it's boat, tank and plane?
(too bad about their sub, but leastwise nobody got hurt)

how bout we throw you the anchor...

:p :p

That's funny, hippo!

But the fact that most countries takes a free ride ain't .

The fact that you shoot yer mouth off and show your ignorance at every opportunity--with no risk, investment or contribution ain't.

But the fact that you hid in the outhouse when I called on you is. Good move. :p :p :p
 

littlejoe

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hypocritexposer said:
Canada takes no free rides, but we do pay our debt, while the US keeps borrowing from foreign governments to afford what they provide...

for fk's sake, that' exactly my point!!!!
 
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I saw this today on FB- so decided to see what Spain pays for military expenditure to police the world... They are even sadder than Canada's two skidoo's and caribou cavalry - paying a measly 0.85% of their GDP (about $11-12 Billion)
BUT
in further checking I found that 98.7% of their nations population are covered by Health Care insurance-- and the last time the WHO (World Health Organization) rated nations on the quality of their health care, Spain ranked 7th... The U.S. came in 37th in that report !!

And then we let p*ssant countries and world trade organizations override our consumers, Congress, and the President and our duly passed laws to tell us how we have to label our meat products- and products we import from these countries that we spend a fortune on protecting their butts so they can stay free.... :roll: :mad:
 
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