So then youre One of the supprter of Da’ash, are you?

Full cancer treatment required. All comments in the above thread are too …. nuanced.
Nothing nuanced about cancer treatment…
Battle for Spain!

The promise of Congress is worth about 2 spits in a spitoon. They are merely words. It is the Executive branch of the United States ‘in chief’ who does the execution of foreign policies and wars.

They’ve been rearming since 2008. They have started to realize that Americans are too unreliable to count on and that relying on a foreign power for their security, is probably an unwise thing for an independent culture to do.

New arms race in Asia now. Good luck with that Pax Americana, it won’t be resurrected any time soon.

State Department via the Qatar and Libya pipelines. Where have you been?

Democrat critters in California selling guns.

ATF Democrat and bureaucrat rulers of you.

Again, where have you been on this Earth, Leftist re-education central?

Yes! Exactly this.

In 1979, Carter, who no doubt thought he was making history and boosting his “legacy,” normalized diplomatic relations with The People’s Republic of China. But, he didn’t push hard enough, or care enough about our allies in the region, and agreed to cut off relations with The Republic of China, on Taiwan. Personally, I think he could have really made history by changing the “One China” Policy into a “Two China” policy; but, that’s another story.

I was living in Taiwan at the time and remember all too well the chill that this stupid move sent down the spine of all the locals.

Not only friends, but, totally strangers coming up to me on the street and asking me if Americans approved of Carter and were we still there “friends”? They weren’t asking this to start a fight with me or anything.

They were asking because they were genuinely concerned that Mainland China might make military moves against Taiwan. With the breaking off of formal relations with Taiwan that meant the US military, which had a couple of bases in Taiwan, was pulling out. Not a good feeling for the locals. I assured my friends and even strangers that we had no intention of leaving. Easy for me to say as I could just get on a plane and leave if things got bad. Also, remember, the US pulling out of Southeast Asia and abandoning Vietnam to its fate wasn’t that long ago in 1979.

Thank God! Just Thank God that congress stepped up and passed the Taiwan Defense Act. Which basically stated that the US WOULD intervene if China made ANY moves, not just military, against Taiwan.

The Taiwan Defense Act was one of those rare events where congress showed true grit.

Today, I see Obama doing so many things worse than Carter (and who ever thought that would be possible!), and even though I’m in the States now, and not overseas, I can still imagine how locals around the world must feel when they see the US not step up to the plate.

Seriously, having a folk singer sing “You’ve got a friend” in response to a terrorist attack?!

Un-freaking-believable!

So, I think, just like congress did with the Taiwan Defense Act, Boehner and today’s Congress are, doing again one of those rare events, and stepping up to the plate to tell our allies and the rest of the world that we are involved and do care. Much better than having an old hasbeen sing to you. Actions speak louder than words.

So, thank God for that.

Ymarsakar, who those merchants?
Are they the lefties as your common in your comments