America's real enemy is in the mirror

"The United States is a bit like a 375-pound, middle-aged man with a heart condition walking down a city street at night eating a Big Mac. He's sweating profusely because he's afraid he might get mugged. But the thing that's going to kill him is the burger." [link in original]

Ain't that the truth?

Two out of three Iraq and Afghanistan vets think wars not worth the sacrifice

According a poll from Pew. US policy makers please note.

Foreign entanglements revistited: Get out of NATO already

"The American Founders feared permanent alliances", says this op-ed post in the Washington Times,  "because they figured that such alliances could entangle the nation in politico-military disputes that geography allowed it to avoid profitably. Instead of taking a victory lap when Col. Gadhafi falls, American policymakers should consider the fruits of NATO’s decades-long policy of infantilizing its allies. Now that America is broke, Europe is safe and the Soviet Union is gone, American policymakers ought to acknowledge that NATO in the 21st century constitutes a costly commitment with little benefit for Americans." [links in original]

Yep. Time has come to cut the chord on NATO. Let the Europeans defend themselves. They have the people, money and know-how to be able to do it. So let 'em. 

The mindset of the professional foreign policy-types in Washington

"At the actual substance of strategy," says strategist William Lind @ American Conservative, " they are incompetent—which matters not a whit at [Washington, D.C.'s imperial] court. In fact, any skill at the substance of policy easily becomes a disadvantage at court because it can lead to saying things people further up the ladder do not wish to hear. At that point, your ladder becomes a chute. And so Washington bungles on, winning less important battles at the expense of losing more important ones, and with them wars. Failure brings no reform: the Establishment just moves on to do the same thing in a new venue.",