TheBig3

This is what happens when America leaves the world stage. But in the long term, this is a good thing. Once people have to deal with their own leadership doing stupid things without someone to blame it on, that's when they're willing to die in the streets for basic freedoms.

I remember Hitchens saying that while he was in Iran, the intellectual class kept saying "Why won't the American's invade" and he was happy about the sentiment at first, but he then realized that if they won't have a revolution themselves, then it's just people wanting the hard work done for them. If you're not willing to kill, they'll just take everything from you.

Economics can solve 90% of the problems we use the military for. And should.