Monday, August 17, 2020

Poll: Americans Want A President Who Ends Endless Wars

Reuters

William Ruger, National Interest: Why Americans Want a President Who Ends Endless Wars

A new poll shows that the U.S. public supports a more realist foreign policy and wants its leaders to focus more on pressing domestic needs than overseas projects.

The United States has been an active military player around the globe since the end of the Cold War. It has fought bloody and expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while also conducting significant military operations in the Balkans, Libya, Syria, and other hot spots in the Middle East and North Africa.

The election of Donald Trump and the significant support garnered by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the Democrat primary suggests that Americans have become weary of this heavy burden. These elected officials prominently called for new thinking about America’s role in the world and benefited from it.

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WNU Editor: Three out of four Americans want US troops back home. That is an astounding number. The poll is here .... NEW POLL: 3 in 4 Americans want troops home from Afghanistan, Iraq; favor less defense spending, less military engagement abroad (Charles Koch Institute).

14 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

Never ending middle east wars are a no go. But gutting defense spending is the wrong thing to do.

Anonymous said...

Russ is is correct on gutting defense spending is wrong.

In WW2 America was fighting 2 mid sized counties with vigorous economies. America had allies. If America did not have the USSR and UK as allies could it have defeated those 2 mid-sized countries by itself?

Have ya wargamed it? Wargames are models and as we know models are not perfect. Yet still there can be usefulness in modeling.

Can America beat a large nation with a vigorous economy? what if they have a 6 months lead. It might take 6 months to ramp up. You learn by doing and you have to do manufacturing in the US to get the full benefit of education and acumen in design and manufacturing. So could we ramp up in 6 months? Is that reasonable?

What if you take out the Chinese and Indian engineers in the US. Is 6 months ramp up still reasonable?

Remember when Trump tried to pull out of Syria? Remember all the shit he caught from generals, MSM and Democrats?

Why are we in Syria? Liberals do not want to defend Kurds or Christians. So that begs the question. Why are we in Syria?

Personally, I rather have Assad form a minority sect than the MB in charge. It is the lesser of 2 evils.

Democrats have no desire for revenge. Assad assisted jihadis in killing Americans during the Iraq war. If we are not in Syria for revenge, then why are we there? For 1 vote 1 time?

jimbrown said...

And named Trump. What a coincidence.

Anonymous said...

OCRUMBOGATE.

Anonymous said...

"Former retired" English Prof popped off at 9:04 with nothing to add but dribble.

Anonymous said...

ah, I see my stalker still getting off on saying the same shit about me. Find some guy that swings your way, misfit, and leave decent people alone.

Anonymous said...

9:44,

A typical gay reply would be that no gay guy would find you attractive. What all of non-gay people wonder his how you gt married a 2nd time. That is like lightening striking twice in
the same spot.

Using the words popped off and dribble. I don't think is too harsh of a rebuke for your OCRUMBOGATE spam.

PS: Your boy Obama is so worried about Global warming and seal level rise that he is building a 2nd home. He will now have a sea front home at sea level of course on the West coast. So now Obama has sea level homes on the east & west coasts.

Yet you still believe all the cockamamie doomsday scenarios put out by the warmunists.

Like they say, "You can fool some of the people all of the time. The "former retired" certainly fits in that category. I have never seen a person who gets fooled all the time wallow in their stupidity until I have seen you.

Anonymous said...

No way Obama is building another home. I remember clearly how he preached about climate change, that we all must reduce our carbon footprint. And his was already 1000x larger than your or my footprint. Granted, we are not as important or equal as him, but I was really hoping to maybe be allowed to have my first home, maybe in 20 years? Please? I know we all should carry yet more of the weight so the best president ever, Obama, who didn't weaponize the FBI to spy on his opponent, who didn't have more gag orders to the media than Bush and Trump combined,..who sequestered the military WHILE pivoting to Asia, sending a bit of mixed signalling. That president who says the flyover states are a bunch of gun and bible clinging.. well deplorables really. No no no. Obama can have 5 homes before I even dare to have a wet dream about my first. He was so good. Such a better man than you or I or that racist deplorable pig in the WHITE House(racist term!!!!)... Obama and the left are inclusive, open to thoughts of the right... hahaha ok I can't. He sucked. Big time.

Anonymous said...

As Trump’s meltdown shows, his only available response is to swap in an entirely invented tale, one hermetically sealed off from reality in just about every conceivable way.

Her case, boiled down, is that Trump inherited a country that, for all its deep problems and lingering inequalities, was on the mend following another previous crisis. Trump proceeded to utterly wreck the place through his incompetence, malevolence, corruption and depraved conviction that stoking as much civil conflict and racial incitement as possible helps him.

Trump’s substitute tale, reflected in a series of tweets, runs as follows: Trump won the White House only as a reaction to Barack Obama’s failures — to “the job done by your husband,” as he sneered. Trump then built the “greatest economy” in the known universe, then voluntarily turned off that economy in a benevolent and responsible effort to save “millions of lives.”

Anonymous said...

Trump’s unhinged Twitter meltdown shows Michelle Obama drew blood

Anonymous said...

You and " Mouth" are losing.

Anonymous said...

You and "Mouth" are losing.

Anonymous said...

Oh looky Fred R Lapides posted at 12:42 and several other times.

Anonymous said...

So was Joe Biden sneaking around on his first wife before the car crash?