Trump: “The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world”
By Julio
Severo
After a surprise visit to the U.S. troops
in Iraq and Germany, the U.S. President Donald Trump said, “The United States
cannot continue to be the policeman of the world.”
In its capacity as a global policeman, the
U.S. has about 800 military bases in 148 countries — an astonishingly high number,
considering that the world has just 196 countries. Militarily, the U.S. is
increasingly occupying the nations. Did Trump mean that the U.S. role as a
military occupier and policeman would end?
Yet, what Trump added as an explanation
for his alleged stance against the U.S. as a global policeman is a far cry from
his original anti-neocon views. He said he does not want the U.S. to be “taken
advantage of any more by countries that use us and use our incredible military
to protect them” as he complained that “they don’t pay for it, and they’re
going to have to.”
I can agree with him about the fact that
it is unacceptable the United States as the policeman of the world. But where
is the U.S. military being taken advantage by countries? Does he want occupied
nations to pay for their occupation?
Does Trump mean, for example, that Europe
should pay NATO for military protection when NATO has been completely useless
to protect Europe from Islamic invasions? In fact, Trump
himself said in 2016 that NATO is useless. I fully agree with him. The
greatest threat to the European civilization is invading it right under NATO’s
nose!
What is the point for Europe to pay if
NATO grants no military protection against Islamic invasions? Besides, many
times Europe has been taken advantage by the U.S. to protect Saudi Islamic ambitions.
Even though Trump angered neocons with his
order to withdraw from Syria U.S. troops illegally deployed by Obama there, he
equally delighted neocons with his plan not to withdraw troops from Iraq, explaining
that the U.S. would use Iraq as the home base for future operations in the Middle
East. The global policeman intends to occupy Iraq for its military operations.
Trump condemned Bush for the invasion of
Iraq. He said that Bush lied about his reasons to invade Iraq. Was Trump right
then or is Trump lying now?
“It’s a place I have been talking about
for many years, many many years,” he told journalists on Wednesday in a
reference to his past claims that the U.S. shouldn’t have waged war in Iraq
after 9/11. “I was talking about it as a civilian,” he reminded.
Some
Iraqi political leaders condemned Trump’s surprise visit as a violation of
Iraq’s sovereignty. Who can blame them? Americans would have also complained if
a foreign president had visited his foreign troops within the U.S. Americans in
the late 1700s could identify themselves with them.
When the British Empire kept its troops in
America, Americans called it oppression and unacceptable. Why cannot be called
oppression and unacceptable when America, as an empire, keeps her troops in
foreign nations in detriment of vulnerable Christian populations?
Americans did not like to be invaded and
occupied by British troops 200 years ago. Today they would not like also to be
invaded and occupied militarily for any foreign nation. Their patriotic feeling
is right, healthy and has a good Bible foundation:
“So
whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the
Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12 ESV)
Bush’s
invasion of Iraq provoked, in its aftermath, untold suffering, devastation and
death to the small Christian communities. If the global policeman cannot
protect Christians, why stay in the Middle East?
The truth is, the role of the U.S. as a global
policeman has not been particularly good for persecuted Christians and their
survival.
In Iraq, Trump said that the coalition of
Turkey and Saudi Arabia will finish ISIS off and rebuild Syria. The problem is:
Saudi Arabia, aided by Crooked Hillary Clinton, created ISIS, which was aided
by Turkey, an Islamic nation notorious for its genocide of Christians. Christians
in Syria and Iraq suffered genocide in the hands of ISIS while the U.S. military
bases in the Middle East protect Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
If Americans in the 2 World War had such mindset,
they would have protected Hitler and asked his assistance to defeat Nazism!
Trump also complained that the U.S. has
spent “7 trillion dollars in the Middle East.” This massive amount was not
spent to protect persecuted Christians. It was spent to help the murderous ambitions
of the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia.
Cannot
the U.S. just pull out its troops from the Middle East and deploy them in the
U.S. borders? Cannot the U.S. spend 7 trillion dollars for security in the U.S.
borders?
No young man wants to go to war in a
distant foreign nation to fight for an unpatriotic cause. This was not
different with Trump, who never served in the military, having received a
medical diagnosis that he had bone spurs. The diagnosis helped him receive an
exemption from mandatory service during the Vietnam War.
Yet, the daughters of the doctor who
provided the medical excuse claimed that their father offered the diagnosis as
a favor to the Trumps. So Trump is a living evidence that no young man wants to
go to war and no family wants their children going to far-away wars.
In 1935, in his book “War Is a Racket,” Major
General Smedley D. Butler said, “The 4,000,000 young men who put on uniforms
and marched or sailed away were not asked whether they wanted to go forth to
suffer and die.”
Butler, who said that there is a war
industry in the U.S. that greatly profits from wars, added,
“A
racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to
the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about.
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very
many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. In the World War [I] a mere
handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires
and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War.”
His patriotic book exposes how the U.S.
military leaders were, over 80 years ago, prioritizing the ambitions of the
military industrial complex at the expense of true patriotism and U.S. national
security. It is impossible not to conclude that the ambitions have not increased.
To build an empire, the military
industrial complex is destroying the U.S. as a Christian nation.
No young man wants to go to a distant
foreign war to die a senseless death. Trump was an intelligent young man when
he and his family used a medical excuse to exempt him from mandatory service
during the Vietnam War.
No intelligent nation accepts the military
occupation of an empire. Americans in the 1700s fought against an oppressive
military empire, not to build an oppressive military empire.
As
a global police, the U.S. has successfully isolated
Russia, the largest Christian Orthodox
nation in the world, but it has not isolated Saudi Arabia, the main sponsor of
Islamic terror around the world. On the contrary, the U.S. has heavily armed the Saudis.
If Trump is serious about his comment “The
United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world,” he should do
just what Americans in the 1700s did. He should fight for America as a nation
and fight against the empire within America that, as a parasite, is corrupting
and destroying the original Christian American nation.
To deliver the U.S. from its role as
global policeman will result in:
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Saving thousands of lives of U.S. young servicemen and other thousands of lives
of Christians who perish in the aftermath of U.S. invasions and intrusion in
the Middle East.
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Saving trillion dollars that, instead of being spent on bloody operations to
serve Saudi ambitions, could be spent on the security of U.S. borders and necessary
U.S. infrastructure.
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Redirecting the U.S. to build itself as a Christian nation minding its own borders,
as intended by its Founders, not as a military empire with 800 military bases
in 148 countries.
Could not Trump use his presidential
powers to deliver the United States from its questionable role as the policeman
of the world?
With information from the DailyMail.
Portuguese
version of this article: Trump: “Os Estados Unidos não podem continuar a ser a
polícia do mundo”
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