Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "World without American leadership under Obama was very dangerous: Gorka" video.
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It's a weird deal. How do we own what we and Europe have done in the region? We despise regressive Islam, but I can easily imagine Christian war leaders springing up in the mountains and vales of our countries if the shoe were on the other foot and we were beset by Islamic conquerors, who insist on re-drawing the maps of Europe and North America.
Obama got at least part of our turbulent history in the Middle East. I'm pretty sure he had little idea how to set things right, for the present and on into the future. Create a vacuum and something unwholesome invariably takes its place.
The real trick is to somehow disengage, leaving MORE stability and peace in our wake. I'm not sure Trump gets it, but I'm pretty sure Obama was on a one-world, authoritarian setup. I'm all for one world, but it's gotta come from the ground up, with civilized countries voluntarily joining other civilized countries. The trouble is, many nations - often due to colonial mind-set in Europe and creeping into American values - just aren't very civilized.
You can't have open borders when folks on the other side are either bad news or FLEEING bad news, and raised in cultures that don't understand Human Rights of Person and Property. In fact, the West, itself, is busy trying to dismantle human rights in favor of the Greater Good, which is ALWAYS the clarion cry of Protection Racketeers.
But if all countries respected basic human rights, folks would live well and secure on both sides of borders, and borders wouldn't matter. Trouble is, there are too many people who believe in using force to make all things right, and more and more people are giving more and more power to central authority, which is exactly the wrong way to go. Sovereign individuals are smarter and care more for the planet than government hierarchies.
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