It should be no surprise that the same approach would fail when tried at the international level. At least, it should be no surprise to those who don’t look at the actual results of their actions, policies, and principles. But some people simply won’t look.

Countries don’t really need our nuclear shield; they can build their own.

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan ALL have the necessary economic, industrial and technical wherewithal to go nuclear; all they need do is make the decision.

Would Saudi Arabia and Egypt worry about Iran? While they may come up short on the necessary infrastructure, they can certainly finance it.

Libya already HAD an ongoing program until they aborted it; they may decide that was a mistake and revive it.

With any luck, instead of always depending on US, we could instead end up with a few dozen MORE players in the nuclear game.

See!!! Problem solved.

/sarc off

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I’m tired of those countries “hating” us until we are needed to be the shield against an aggressor and Americans die for their freedom. I find it even more amusing given that this is the person they would have overwhelmingly elected and the policy they would have overwhelmingly supported (at least according to their rhetoric). Of course, once reality starts banging at the door those protective wolf-hounds look MUCH better than the actual wolf prowling at their door. They just never believed that Obama would *actually* do this.

If I’m going to be screwed – and make no mistake I am – then I would rather give the ones screwing *exactly* what they wanted in the whole screw fest. We had the chance to not get screwed – Bush gave it to us post 9-11 – yet the international community would have rather all joined in America bashing as we protected their sorry asses. Now they got what their idiocy wrought and they are dumbfounded as to what to do – they never once even guessed that this would be the course we would take.

I’ll laugh about their demise as we go down too I guess. Misery loves company. There are really only a VERY few entities I feel sorry for. One is us – nearly 50% didn’t want this. Second is Australia – they have been with us for *every* major engagement. And, well, that is pretty much it. I have some sympathy for Canada and Britain in that their leaders had enough sense to mostly do the right thing, but their populace was overwhelmingly idiots that wanted this too and limited what could have been a decisive blow to simply “meh”.

There are also some eastern European countries that have (since the fall of the soviet Union) been true allies – Poland comes to mind – but they haven’t had enough history to know if it was simply that their politics almost totally aligned with ours for a bit or if they truly felt like friends and would do a respectable give and take in policy.

Foreign policy losses are ahead.

This White House is more and more resembling the principate of Gaius Germanicus, a.k.a. Caligula. It’s just a bizarre place now.

Who’s next to be appointed economic adviser? MC Hammer?

He has no sense of proportion and no sense of history. Thus, we have a high functioning, Harvard-approved retard in the White House, elected by a bunch of dimwits who would not deign to do any due diligence.

I blogged about this one too, sans the Good Friday angle: “Self-Induced Demise of the American Superpower.”