What % of the world should we police/contol?

[Baruch Menachem]

Here's a pie chart of the world's population (I think it's old but it's close). You can see us in purple. My question is, what parts of the world, other than our own country, should we police or control with our political policy or military might?

Japan and Germany.

For how much longer?

From what I have seen from my conversations from German students at school.. in perpetuity.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

weird question is weird. It is hard to know just what you mean. We should be in charge or ourselves and do as good a job of that as we can.

We should assist in taking care of issues like piracy and the slave trade on the high seas. As for what we can do on land, that is problematical.

We can't march in and take over every state if we don't like their government. But if some states are totally rogue we can't let thug states bully their neighbors.

And what your pie chart has to do with this discussion i have no idea.

there is always a method to my madness.

You might explain it it as it seems to have no relation to your argument.

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

only a few people have answered. anybody else have an opinion?

 

[Staidhup]

None, we should stand by our allies against aggression, insure the trade routs are fee and clear, stand ready to defend our freedom and get out of the UN!

 

[konradv]

Apparently some think we should get involved in this.

Nigeria protests rage as calls for accountability grow - CNN.com

Not only are we supposed to be the policeman of the world, we're supposed to come to the aid of any Christian anywhere in the world.

 

[BlindBoo]

weird question is weird. It is hard to know just what you mean. We should be in charge or ourselves and do as good a job of that as we can.

We should assist in taking care of issues like piracy and the slave trade on the high seas. As for what we can do on land, that is problematical.

We can't march in and take over every state if we don't like their government. But if some states are totally rogue we can't let thug states bully their neighbors.

And what your pie chart has to do with this discussion i have no idea.

there is always a method to my madness.

So you advocate gutting the Military like Clinton and Obama?

What is your position on Treaty Obligations?

First, requesting fiscally responsible defense budgets has historically been a bipartisan effort:

To keep a balanced budget, President Dwight Eisenhower, a five-star Army general and lifelong Republican, slashed defense spending by 27 percent after the armistice ended the Korean War.
Richard Nixon, also a Republican and Eisenhower’s vice president, cut the budget by 29 percent as he withdrew from Vietnam.
Between 1987 and 1998 the defense budget fell for 11 straight years as Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton—two Republicans and a Democrat—brought spending down to more sustainable levels as the Cold War wound down.
Second, despite claims to the contrary, previous spending reductions have not compromised U.S. national security or created a hollow military:

A Historical Perspective on Defense Budgets

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

there is always a method to my madness.

So you advocate gutting the Military like Clinton and Obama?

What is your position on Treaty Obligations?

First, requesting fiscally responsible defense budgets has historically been a bipartisan effort:

To keep a balanced budget, President Dwight Eisenhower, a five-star Army general and lifelong Republican, slashed defense spending by 27 percent after the armistice ended the Korean War.
Richard Nixon, also a Republican and Eisenhower’s vice president, cut the budget by 29 percent as he withdrew from Vietnam.
Between 1987 and 1998 the defense budget fell for 11 straight years as Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton—two Republicans and a Democrat—brought spending down to more sustainable levels as the Cold War wound down.
Second, despite claims to the contrary, previous spending reductions have not compromised U.S. national security or created a hollow military:

A Historical Perspective on Defense Budgets

we're so far in debt that $ from every department will have to be cut. the problem is that many people think that cutting a reasonable amount, from a department that they think shouldn't be touched, is slashing or gutting it.