Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Fireside Chat Ep. 223 — When Should America Intervene? | Fireside Chat" video.

  1. Sorry Dennis, the Cold War may never have really ended but the rules of the game certainly have. Keeping the Truman Doctrine alive has been a problem for this country for a very long time. I served in the military for more than two decades. I was part of the generation that bridged the gap between the Cold War and the New World Order. American thinking never evolved and I fear we are going to pay a terrible price for it in the not too distant future, one that encompasses a whole lot more than arguing about pronoun's, masks, or bathrooms. We should still be in Afghanistan? You point to South Korea, Germany, and Japan as examples to support your thesis but I say having troops stationed in any of those places serves no purpose but to make people in the defense industry rich. Our military has an officer class that has become politicized and we are led by people who are either 10 years or more beyond their expiration date or are so lacking in real-world life experiences that it boggles the mind. Our entire infrastructure, especially our power grid, is so vulnerable that we are one good enemy strike away from living in the 1850s and we have lost our way on a moral level. Our culture has become coarse and our online bad behavior is bleeding over into the real world. We are raising a generation of confused children and we facing enemies who are more determined and have evolved over time. I'm not saying we should pull off the stage completely, but unless we sort out our own house pretty damn quick we won't have anything left to pull back. Getting our troops out of places where they serve no purpose except lining the pockets of those whose pockets are lined well enough is a good start. Again, your way of thinking Dennis had a place when hundreds of thousands of troops were on the borders of our allies, locked and loaded and ready to go, but that's simply not the case anymore. 9/11 showed us the error of our way of thinking and yet people are still living in the 1970s. It's time to rethink everything, before there's no one left to do the thinking.
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