The Middle Eastern question

[Kinser79]

(05-14-2016, 12:29 PM)Odin Wrote: I may be left-wing, but I am also a geopolitical realist. US isolationism will create a power vacuum that will only lead to horrific wars as various powers try to fill the void. Have we all forgotten what happened when the US refused to accept hegemonic status after WW1? The result was another world war. Isolationism is a idealistic ideology for the geopolitically ignorant.

So then you're saying you have no faith in the EU, or even for that matter the UN in filling that vacuum. Now with the EU I can understand, Europe is pretty busy destroying itself which is why we should expect a Brexit this year. That being said, let us look at what the US has accomplished with it's hegemonic status...

More wars. Creating wars where there weren't any before the rise and promotion of ISIS, Al Queda and so forth. So yeah interventionism has had glorious results. Well if one is in the military-industrial complex perhaps, otherwise it hasn't.

This doesn't even get into the fact that eventually your debt catches up to you--even for currency issuers. I will grant MMT in that it states that currency issuers (like the Federal Government) cannot go bankrupt but if the currency inflates enough then foreigners are under no obligation to use our currency to purchase oil and resources. But what is most important for those who insist on interventionism is that in order to be interventionist we need a large military and that military has to be paid for by a large military which requires a large and strong economy--which is being systematically destroyed by these very same interventionists through globalist trade deals!

In short, I can only come to the conclusion that the highest form of patriotism is the insistence that the US go and be a normal country for a while. As for preventing war...forget that. Man's nature is such that wars will always happen, are perhaps unavoidable.