A new geopolitical ordering of priorities has been announced. Withdrawing US troops from Syria and Afghanistan proves once again that President Trump has sound instincts about military policy. To be sure, ISIS and the Taliban and bad guys elsewhere still need to be challenged on the ground, but it is time for geographically-closer stakeholder countries to get involved.
All Europeans, including the Russians, have far more skin in the game than we do way over here in the Western Hemisphere. Trump knew this when he became the first American president to demand that Europeans start financially supporting NATO more.
Europe has long been invaded by Asian hordes from places like Afghanistan. Every school kid still (hopefully) remembers Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. The rise of Islam right after the fall of the Roman Empire meant that Europe has been continuously invaded over the centuries. Ask the Viennese. Ask about what happened to Constantinople.
American intervention in the Middle East and elsewhere overseas has lulled Europeans into an almost suicidal dependency–and on not helping themselves enough. If the US pulled out every soldier tomorrow, ISIS might well regroup (if it’s serious about the caliphate). But it’s almost certain that the European political right would emerge from the shadows. The right is waiting, ready to spring into action once real danger is sensed.
First on the agenda for the European right would be to vote-out/overthrow the socialist welfare governments, then build up the necessary military striking forces to invade countries harboring any ISIS-like threat to the European land mass. Protectorates were, in fact, protective of vulnerable countries.
Of course, it’s not just Europeans who are stakeholders, but other countries in the Middle East and Africa and Asia who could be threatened by militant Islam (the Russians, for example).
America has let its hemispheric duties grow weaker and weaker under the watches of Democratic Party and establishment GOP liberals. Cartels have run amok in Central America and have a menacing foothold in “Sanctuary City” gangs. It’s not surprising at all that refugees are now crowding up against our southern border, when they would be much happier if their own countries were safer. President Trump knows this.
US troops from Syria and Afghanistan need to be redeployed to Central America, but the American military has to be redesigned into a guerrilla-style force, able to carry on clandestine jungle and desert warfare in coordination with the CIA.
Nor should we fight such wars against cartels under the one-sided brokerage of our leftist national media, using all the failed tactics of embedded reporters who spin a defeatist zeitgeist to entertainment-drugged public back home. Let the military and CIA do what it needs to do. We’ve long since given up any true sense of freedom of the press. World War II had it (and can serve as a model) but Vietnam changed everything, and our wars since haven’t been impressive or decisive.
Meanwhile, let’s build the wall and bring our troops home so that we can rebuild the Americas for the citizens of all of its countries, including the US. The Europeans can do the same—or suffer the consequences.
