Wall Street Journal Op Ed - Yes America should be the worlds policeman

Couldn't disagree more.

As Obama has demonstrated, we should disengage.
And then pay a global "fine".
If that fails to appease our enemies, we should surrender.
Peace at any cost.
This place can protect itself.

Well of course the WSJ wants the US military making the world safe for corporations.

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I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents

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MAJGEN Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC, CMOH

I don't care if we help them. I only care that we don't help ourselves. Self-interest is no way to run a foreign policy. Only by proving that we have no national interests can we achieve ideological purity.

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What we need instead, as the fairy tale has it, is a foreign policy that is just right—neither too ambitious nor too quiescent, forceful when necessary but mindful that we must not exhaust ourselves in utopian quests to heal crippled societies.

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Sounds sooooo simple.

Wall St doesn't like change or uncertainty. Thus we should continue to police the world. Its good for business.

The one thing I do agree on is the need to upgrade the air fleet. Its getting old.