You see, that’s the sort of thing I wonder about. Sure he’s an isolationist, that doesn’t bother me at all, but would he pull the trigger if we were attacked? Frankly I think he’d be quicker on the draw than some of the others on the platform.
We need to grow up a little and understand that conventional deterrence simply has not, does not, and will not work. Putting our people in harms way ostensibly to protect our “national interests” is crushingly expensive, glacially slow, and usually, as we’re seeing right now, can’t be maintained long enough to be effective due to the erosion of public support.
In fact, having our people so close to the world’s hot spots now only insures we’re going to get some of them killed, it also effectively removes the one and only deterrent that will actually work. We won’t nuke an adversary if our people are too close. And that, boys and girls, is the ONLY deterrent that will work against an adversary raised from birth to be suicidally committed to a belief system. The Japanese were bad asses long before the muzzies and they’ve been pretty damned quiet for the last half century or so. So quiet that their culture has matured into one of the most peaceful on the planet.
Nobody wants to hear it, nobody wants to admit it, but in the end it will be them or us, and building them shiny new schools when they allow attacks to be launched on us from their soil isn’t cutting it as a deterrent.
