How much of the Cold
War can we still afford to fight? How
many pirates, in which oceans do we need to destroy?
The
foreign policy debate we should be having
As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for Monday night’s debate
on foreign policy, they could do some useful last-minute cribbing by reading an
article titled “The Risks of Ignoring Strategic Insolvency.”
It’s one of the best summaries I’ve seen of an urgent problem they should
discuss honestly…
Despite
the ongoing insistence of the GOP/teavangelists, the United States no longer
needs to be the world cop and maintain a two ocean plus one brushfire capacity
to wage war.
Like all empires, the U.S. has reached
a point of overextension and is unable to afford the continual updates that we
paid for during the Cold War. Those
enemies are gone or have changed their courses in concert with the rest of the
world.
For the time being, we should maintain
our navy at current levels so as to maintain the capability to project power
toward other nations and to carry out anti-piracy duties. Beyond those roles, we no longer need to
beggar our nation in order to die with the most toys.
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