When you stop to think about it, America, since 1917, have been plagued by presidents who won election by promising to keep the republic out of wars. Indeed, Trump is far from being the worst of the lot. In 1916, for example, President Woodrow Wilson won reelection largely on the basis of the campaign slogan “He kept us out of war!”. Wilson and the daft Congressional majority went to war against a German nation that posed precisely zero threat to the United States and its people. The claim of a great threat to American citizens by German submarines, was actually made somewhat true due to Wilson’s mad assertion that U.S. citizens have the historical and legal rights to travel on any ship they decided to take even if the chosen ship belonged to an enemy of Germany, whether it was British, French, Italian, or any other ship owned by a member or dependent of the anti-German alliance. Had Wilson possessed even a semblance of commonsense, and he had ignored his war-eager Secretary of State Robert Lansing, he would have known that it was absurd to expect Germany and its allies to refuse to attack the enemy’s ships – many of which carried guns, explosives, and ammunition, including large ocean-liners – simply because U.S. citizens booked passage on such a ship. Ever the fool, Wilson could have ended the issue on which his declaration of war was based by refusing passports to any American planning to cross the Atlantic on a ship owned by Britain or its allies. He refused to do so and war came. Also idiotic was the claim by Wilson, his domestic political allies, and the leaders of the Allied governments, delivered via their endless bleating about the severe threat of Germany becoming the world’s dominant power. It seems likely that Wilson, and later President Franklin Roosevelt, did not know how to read a map. They both needed an honest aide capable of reading a map for them, and one who also possessed some knowledge about Germany’s population numbers and outlook. With such data, Wilson and Roosevelt would have known that odds against Germany becoming the dominant world power in either era were simply insurmountable.
Enter every U.S. president since Roosevelt – save, for the most part, Ronald Reagan – each of whom found life-and-death threats to the United States from any number of rat-trap countries that ultimately defeated the U.S. forces sent to smash them for what was always an imaginary and much over-hyped threat.
Sadly, President Trump is becoming a past-master at finding enemies that are hopeless non-entities or ones who don’t merit being given the time of day. Most recently, Trump sent U.S. airpower to cooperate with the Nigerian government in attacking a village said to be the home to Islamist fighters who are randomly killing Christian Nigerians. Had the president been able to call on an adviser who knew anything at all about fighting Islamists — and especially why the U.S. always losses to them — Trump may have made the right decision, which was to drop the idea of even a limited U.S. intervention in Nigeria because he had been informed that such a military raid would, in sum, increase support and enthusiasm for Islamists across Africa and from old-reliable supporters throughout the Arab world.
In short, Trump would have been forced to conclude that while it’s too bad that Christians are getting killed, even a significant deployment of U.S. forces to Nigeria would have gained nothing but a good start for the U.S. forces – the traditional brief results for all U.S. overseas interventions bound for defeat – which would quickly lapse into the slow but steady bloodletting that always accompanies the now familiar outcomes of U.S. interventions; namely, the lack of U.S. military progress, rising casualties on all sides, including Christians, the U.S. force, and the Nigerian military and civilians, Islamist fighters arriving from elsewhere in Africa, and likely from abroad, a shot in the arm to Islamism across the world, and then, naturally, the traitorous anvil chorus of Neocon demands for the deployment of larger U.S. forces. Some smart foreign policy move, don’t you think?
Elsewhere in the world, this week’s guest Brandon Reichert – a well-known author on U.S. foreign policy and the host of his own and excellent weekly U.S. national-security programs on the America Out Loud Network and on Rumble – remarked that it appears that President Trump seems to be unaware that the Americans who voted for him have little or no interest in seeing him waste his time, prestige, taxpayer-money, and the U.S. military trying to end wars elsewhere in the world. Wars are a normal, if regrettable, part, of international life and involving the United States in other peoples’ fights has seldom if ever benefited the American interventionists. American voters want no unnecessary wars that involve their country, their children, and the waste of their taxes in waging wars for countries that are at base U.S. enemies, like war-loving Israel and the members of NATO and the EU. Not one in 100 Americans, moreover, gives a good damn about their president receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, an award made a sad joke forever by giving it to the now jail-bound Barack Obama.
Far more important, in the American Mind, is President’s Trump efforts to drain the United States of illegal aliens – which now seems to be going well – but Mr. Weichert noted that every success on that front always seems to countered by the vast increase in foreigners in America that is caused by the administration’s other actions. Trump’s welcoming of 600,000 Chinese students into the United States, placed an enormous Chinese intelligence-collection organization able to roam the continent freely and steal U.S. intellectual property, with an easy escape route for them through Canada where the Liberal Government is nothing more than Beijing’s lapdog. The Trump Administration also seem to have agreed with Trump’s billionaire tech cronies to put a priority on accepting large numbers of young foreign tech-workers to remedy the cronies’ claims that they face a disastrous shortage of talented tech workers. Instead of telling his cronies to bugger-off and set up tech training schools in numbers that will fill their needs with American workers trained at their own expense – that’s the capitalist way of doing things — the Trump’s regime’s support has bowed to the demands and dumped the expense on the U.S. taxpayers and domestic job-seekers. You know, if the mass of foreign tech workers that the Tech Czars’ demand – one total mentioned is 500,000 – is realized, the administration will have created, with the Chinese students, a standing force of 1.1. million new foreigners in America, a total that approximates the current strength of the U.S. Military. Amazing
