America First?

[usonian]

The GOP was all over isolationism, and you've seen the tweets from "the good old days"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21066609

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Now, we have reckless, rogue warmongering that Mussolini and Hirohito would envy.

Not only is it morally reprehensible, but it's a giant contradiction that would challenge even the "Great Wall of Denial" that characterizes the maga cult.



Trump: We don't want to be the policemen of the world BY BRETT SAMUELS - 04/30/18 6:30 AM
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-dont-want-to-be-the-policemen-of-the-world/

President Trump on Monday said the U.S. should no longer serve as the “policemen of the world.”

“We more and more are not wanting to be the policemen of the world,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

“We’re spending tremendous amounts of money for decades policing the world, and that shouldn’t be the priority,” he said.

Trump ran on the promise that he would extricate the U.S. from foreign wars.

and by the way ...




Strategists, What say you?????

[liberal N proud]

1. Eisenhower on war

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men".
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing".
From his 1953 "Chance for Peace" speech: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed".