08-10-2016, 12:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2016, 12:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
YOu mean The Donald, that quintessential example of everything that's wrong with Boomers?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have gotten some things wrong in foreign policy, but nothing like George W Bush or even his father, or Nixon and Johnson. I think, going forward, the "idealistic boomer" Hillary will help the forces of revolution when the alternative is genocide by a tyrannical maniac; help financially and diplomatically that is, but not by invading the rebels' land. And she will work with the institutions of global security rather than making pre-emptive wars with coalitions of the willing.
What to do about the provocations of the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon? I think the bottom line is that our security arrangements with NATO and the force of international law require the USA to help defend an ally that is being invaded for conquest. And to help in other such situations too, IF the international community agrees that world law and order has been broken. Invading other nations for conquest is not legal. The USA can no longer be the world's policeman. But in a world where maniacs roam the streets and threaten nations, there need to be policemen, employed and deployed by the community by law, and not vigilantes. The values of Cynic Hero, ruthless conquest and exploitation by egomaniacs, might have been tolerable in the agricultural age, but not today. International law and order is what makes civilization.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have gotten some things wrong in foreign policy, but nothing like George W Bush or even his father, or Nixon and Johnson. I think, going forward, the "idealistic boomer" Hillary will help the forces of revolution when the alternative is genocide by a tyrannical maniac; help financially and diplomatically that is, but not by invading the rebels' land. And she will work with the institutions of global security rather than making pre-emptive wars with coalitions of the willing.
What to do about the provocations of the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon? I think the bottom line is that our security arrangements with NATO and the force of international law require the USA to help defend an ally that is being invaded for conquest. And to help in other such situations too, IF the international community agrees that world law and order has been broken. Invading other nations for conquest is not legal. The USA can no longer be the world's policeman. But in a world where maniacs roam the streets and threaten nations, there need to be policemen, employed and deployed by the community by law, and not vigilantes. The values of Cynic Hero, ruthless conquest and exploitation by egomaniacs, might have been tolerable in the agricultural age, but not today. International law and order is what makes civilization.