Today's Editon of Paradigms and Demographics is devoted to the Syrian "pullout".
By Rich Kozlovich
Many of you will remember I've said over and over again that the Bretton Woods era is over. Bretton Woods was the agreement made toward the end of WWII where America created the first hegemony in the world where the hegemony benefited more than did the hegemon, that being the United States.
America met with nations and said after we won they were going to be broke and broken, so we would protect them, patrol the world's oceans against piracy and open our markets to them.
The cold war gave impitus to the idea of defending the world against communism. We did it, we saved the world militarily and economically. Communism failed in Russia and China, except we bailed out China with trade agreements that were based on Bretton Woods concepts.
We opened our markets to them and gave them the financial success that fueled their military expansion, and their desire to control Asia and defeat the United States.
Well, it's time we picked up our marbles and went home and worried more about protecting our society, our culture, our economy and stop wasting American lives and dollars on fruitless military adventures that never end. These Muslim cultures are never going to be stable, and they're never going to be reliable allies and they're always going to hate America, all the while smiling while picking our pockets. That's Islam, get over it!
It's time for them to step up on their own hind legs and take care of themselves, and if they can't, or won't, then that's not our problem. Our pull out of Syria is just another good example of our interfering in the Middle East quicksand that's a never ending story. A story where we won't write the ending, and if we step in a make one side victorious, they'll turn on us as soon as they don't need us any longer, and that included the Kurds.
The reality is America is going to stop wasting American lives and American wealth for the dubious benefit of others. If America does anything it will be because it directly benefits America.
Trump gets it! Bretton Woods is over!
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