Timothy Birdnow

Mitch McConnell calls for more endless wars.

FTA:

"Speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, after which he received a standing ovation, the Kentucky Republican invoked the hawkish legacy of the 40th president, arguing that "influential voices” are forgetting the lessons of the Cold War amid growing threats from China and Russia.
"Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America’s place,” McConnell said.
"But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” McConnell said, paraphrasing Trump’s longtime campaign slogan."

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Soooo....

Our "greatness" depends on our fighting wars all over the globe, oftentimes where we have zero national interest!

He considers not bankrupting ourselves as "managing the decline" rather than prudently managing our RESOURCES so we can fight another day when needed.

No sir; it is Mr. McConnell who has managed the decline, and contributed to it in a large way by wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars, dollars he stole from future generations.

He is too stupid to learn from Orwell "war is peace". Orwell saw clearly that endless war was nothing but a tool for the tyrants. Read 1984.

Yes, Reagan was aggressive in his use of American power but he did that with a conscious sense of WHY he was using it. We had played pattycake with the Soviets for decades with "containment" and "d'etente" and Reagan understood we could end the Cold war and then would be able to stop with this military intervention. He fought to attain peace, not to embroil us in one unnecessary fight after another.

I point out the dangers of endless war as illustrated by Eisenhower in his farewell address; Ike warned in it that we were facing a very dangerous situation because we were empowering the military, the big coprorations, and the bureaucracy and higher education. He worried these forces would create a dictatorship and he was right.

That's what McConnell now promotes, and what these idiots at this Reagan forum applauded. Reagan was first and foremost about protecting FREEDOM, not just fighting wars that did not concern us. He did not want America to be the world's policeman; he just wanted to fight the Communists wherever they threatened to destroy them. It was STRATEGIC. This is just war because it's fun and profitable.

It is way past time China Mitch leaves the scene.

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