United States Foreign Policy 12 09 2021

 United States Foreign Policy 12 09 2021

We really are in an odd position with regard to what foreign nations we consider to be our allies.

None of those foreign countries have the same baseline form of Democracy as the United States does.

Nor will they ever have the strength and courage to develop that.  So that is weaker.

What good does it do the United States to consider weaker nations as being our ally?

It just draws us into foreign conflicts, War.

And we are not imperialists who want to make colonies out of foreign nations that we conquer.

And when you look at our allies today versus what their governments led them to become in world history.  A.  How can you say that they won't act that way again?  That that really isn't the true measure of what they are?  B.  How can you say one of a bad lot makes for a better foreign ally than another?

We did get a little of that Imperialist Policy under George Bush Junior didn't we?  In order to make a Colony, A. First you have to have martial law? B. Which really means using acts of violence to get a populous to conform to your policy?  I would say George Bush advocating torture and propagandize the nature of it with regard to foreign detainees was on par with Governing Colonies in Imperialism? 

So what we have is a Commodity natural resources (oil and who owns it) is what creates wealth rather than what was the standard of American Innovation always making us number one?

Buy your diamonds from Imperialists who whip Afrikan miners right?  Buy your consumer products from Chinese who are forced to work in manual labor until their bones and tendons are ground down from it at an early age?  Both about the same?

Take that American soul and run to the bank with it.  Have it made in China!  Label the victims of it Schizophrenic.  Who makes money from that?  The American people?  In what way?  Gigantic National Debt?  Know anything about balance sheets as to what that really means?  It means our nation has an accumulated deficit.  Which means what?  It means that year over year over year the losses to the American people are added up and they are the total of that national debt.  Now I know what you want to do.  You want to get some flippant nut on the radio or television who will spiel some academic jargon that dismisses all this and therefore quickly makes your easy head feel good again.

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So someone was just reading to me how General Nimitz believed that the Japanese erred by not bombing our dry docks, or our oil tanks on the Hawaiian Islands.  Perhaps he didn't understand that the Japanese had planned on taking the whole thing?

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So the bottom line here is when you choose sides with nations of lesser standards you ultimately ending losing?

What nation that we saved ever went and said, "Look at the Blessed nation that saved us!  How did they do that?  It must be their standard of Constitutional Rights!  We need to have that exact same form of Government and Constitution!"  

Unfortunately, the cat drags our nation the other way doesn't it!

© 2021 Thomas Murphy

And why didn't those American Battleships in Pearl Harbor have a Skeleton Crew aboard on a Sunday Morning capable of using anti-aircraft fire?  It would not have been an error of judgement to believe that the Japanese fleet was in striking distance?  What is the distance from Japan to Pearl Harbor?  And how fast can a battleship travel?

So according to google data is it 3,945 miles from Japan to Pearl Harbor?  The Circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles at the equator.

Okay so that doesn't make sense.  But what does make sense is that the United States had already engaged the Japanese fleet in the Pacific. No strike that, we had not officially engaged them until they attacked Pearl Harbor.  So they should have thought to be on guard?  What was the last known closeness of the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor?  You look at that map and only see blue in those 3,945 miles.  Are there islands in between we had already been fighting them at?

Palika, Majura, South Tarawa, Howland, Tokelau, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Kiribati, Midway, Wake, Ogasarawa, Mt Chibusayama.

So we were not at War until Pearl Harbor.  But yet we had that fleet there ready to go?

And indeed perhaps I need to refresh my reading of history.  You try and type with a ding-a-ling talking to you.

Pearl Harbor: December 7th 1941

Midway: June 4 1942

A Bomb Japan:  August 6th 1945

Since we used the A Bomb any way, could we have dropped it quicker than that 3 or 4 year lag?  The justification being American lives saved?  I could sense you didn't understand the reason for dropping it quicker?

And perhaps this is the best justification for being at the ready in defense with that skeleton crew, ops.  Japan knew we were not going to be on their side with that fleet.

Perhaps an error of logic the American military doesn't conceive of?  An enemy that knows we are not going to be on their side?  Now circle back to the first few paragraphs of this article and put that into perspective.

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And look at the idea I just flushed out from all of this?  "A total fool knows that you are not going to be on their side!"  Highly relevant in terms of everyday life in America isn't it!