Should America take the role of "World Police"?
Poll - Total Votes: 21
Yes, the world needs policing.
No, the world should take care of itself.
You can only vote on one answer.
Something I can't understand:
I don't understand why people in the US have this romantic notion about serving in the military.
To the rest of the world the military incursions into foreign lands seem more like acts of aggression rather than peace keeping missions, when have they EVER promoted peace?
How many stories do you hear of returned service-people coming home to a broken life? Quite a few. How many resources are afforded by the US to rehabilitate these people? Probably quite a few but nowhere near enough. You see and hear of homeless veterans that have nothing and are really living rough.
I wouldn't want to serve in the military and take the chance that I would come back a broken man and get insufficient backing from the government that put me in that position to start with.
Admittedly, in the media you hear the extreme cases and think them the norm, which they probably aren't, but why take that chance?
I think my biggest grievance with the US in these matters is that it is still trying to act as the "World Police" when I think that role has been outmoded. There is no real role for the world police.
We now have Hillary saying she will use Nuclear force if Israel is invaded, girl, get a grip. Personally, I don't see that the US has the authority or the responsibility to do such a thing. Nuclear bombs should be the very last thing threatened rather than one of the first, you are out of your tree Hillary.
But it's not just Hillary, she is merely playing to the public forum. That's sad, to think that the US public could support nuclear bombs being used on anyone is a sad indictment of public opinion in the US.
Rant over
I don't understand why people in the US have this romantic notion about serving in the military.
To the rest of the world the military incursions into foreign lands seem more like acts of aggression rather than peace keeping missions, when have they EVER promoted peace?
How many stories do you hear of returned service-people coming home to a broken life? Quite a few. How many resources are afforded by the US to rehabilitate these people? Probably quite a few but nowhere near enough. You see and hear of homeless veterans that have nothing and are really living rough.
I wouldn't want to serve in the military and take the chance that I would come back a broken man and get insufficient backing from the government that put me in that position to start with.
Admittedly, in the media you hear the extreme cases and think them the norm, which they probably aren't, but why take that chance?
I think my biggest grievance with the US in these matters is that it is still trying to act as the "World Police" when I think that role has been outmoded. There is no real role for the world police.
We now have Hillary saying she will use Nuclear force if Israel is invaded, girl, get a grip. Personally, I don't see that the US has the authority or the responsibility to do such a thing. Nuclear bombs should be the very last thing threatened rather than one of the first, you are out of your tree Hillary.
But it's not just Hillary, she is merely playing to the public forum. That's sad, to think that the US public could support nuclear bombs being used on anyone is a sad indictment of public opinion in the US.
Rant over
56-60, M
