Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday denounced those who advocate “an American retreat from responsibility” and said sustained U.S. leadership is needed to help keep the world as safe, free and prosperous as possible. He also urged Congress to end the partisan gridlock that has stalled the federal budget and war spending.
The United States must reject calls to turn away from global interests and become more isolationist, he told an audience of lawmakers, corporate and defense leaders and government officials attending a security conference. Those who “try to pull up the drawbridge,” he said, undermine the security that has led to decades of prosperity.
American doesn’t even fulfill its responsibility to take care of its own citizens at home. What a cop out excuse.
We are not the world police.
We should be minding our own damn business as a country.
We can mind our own business and remain leaders in world affairs by focusing our efforts on issues that involve the entire community and step back from the cowboy diplomacy of the Bush era. We stop acting unilaterally and start acting cooperatively, backing UN resolutions that enhance human rights and progress and supporting allies who are defending themselves.
Exactly what some said before WWII. Then on December 7th, we found out different.
America does need a National Retreat. There needs to be an order that all Americans retreat to their bed until warmer weather.
Those who “try to pull up the drawbridge,” he said, undermine the security that has led to decades of prosperity.
Those decades of security and power were brought to you by the atom bomb and being the only one left standing after WW2. It’s time to learn to coexist with others who have caught up on a level playing field. We’re going to become a regular irrelevant country again, deal with it. It kills these people when they imagine themselves not being able to police and manipulate the world.
We’re going to become a regular irrelevant country again, deal with it.
Nah. That’s completely unacceptable
Big Lloyd is right.
