America Needs to Stop Being The World's Policeman!

By Rich Kozlovich 

On August 11, 2023, this article,"We Can't be the World's Policeman?" by Karen McKay was posted on America Thinker claiming someone has to police the world, and it had better be the United States versus anyone else.  Well, I think we need to discuss this as the impetus, because in my opinion, the real reason for this piece is to justify America's involvement in the Russo/Ukraine War, so let's explore this. 

America ended up with that policing "responsibility" after WWII simply because there really wasn't anyone else to keep the world's shipping lanes free of piracy, and that was all about economics, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But why did we have to police and defend Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin and South America, and the rest of the world against communism? Which dragged America into every major and petty conflict that infected humanity?  Many times unsuccessfully at the cost of a lot of America blood and money.

Let’s try and get some clarity on this. The only reason Stalin became such a world threat was because FDR was a traitor, and Stalin “fooled” Truman, which I find interesting since he was a real history buff, and as President of the United States he had to know about the Venona intercepts and how badly Stalin’s agents had infiltrated the federal government under FDR. They turned Eastern Europe over to Stalin, and that gave impetus for China to be taken over by communists, and spread that contamination worldwide.

But the economic and structural stability of the world was in such bad shape after WWII the world was like a child needing an adult hand to hold them up, and America was that adult. But at some point, that child grows up, and you’re not holding them up any longer, they’re dragging you down. We’re long past that point, and it’s time we operate under one principle and one principle only. How does any effort benefit America? But that’s the problem! Who decides if our involvement benefits America or not, and what are the parameters of that evaluation? 

All this goes back to the inappropriate involvement by America in Europe during WWI, the most dramatic event of the 20th century, because all the crises we face are a direct result of that involvement. 

We hear a lot of clabber about the the Zimmerman note and the sinking of the Lusitania, neither of which justified America’s entry into that monstrous meat grinder called WWI.   As provocative as it was, the Zimmerman Note was stupid, and there was no way Germany could lend military aid to Mexico in a war against the US and everyone in the government had to know that.  They couldn't even supply their own military properly how were they supposed to supply Mexico?

As for the Lusitania, while it was a passenger ship, an English passenger ship, it was carrying illegal cargo making it a legitimate target. The Brits knew it and there’s history that suggests the federal government knew it.  All the outrage over that was an emotional red herring played by Wilson and the newspapers.

Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare was vile, but it was a result of two things. England was blockading German ports, and the US was materially and financially working to support England, including letting Churchill, who was High Lord of the Admiralty, get away with flying American flags on British ships, all of which was designed to get Germany to sink American ships in order to inflame American outrage and join the war.   A mess Europe created for itself, a mess for which America was not responsible, and a mess for which America had no responsibility to fix.  While Germany was in no way the good guy in this mess, neither were the Brits or Wilson. This was a European problem of their own creation and America needed to stay out of it.

What would have happened if America had stayed out of that war? Europe was already facing riots and terrorist attacks from what they deemed to be anarchists, and had very real fears their governments might be overthrown. These anarchists were in fact all socialists of some brand or the other, and their outrage against these governments was having a serious impact on the people of all these nations, whose children were being slaughtered. They'd tried to wear out machine guns with young men's bodies, and they were all running out of young men. All of their economies were heading into the toilet, which according to the Guns of August, all the European powers knew any continental war lasting more than six months would bankrupt Europe.  All the European nations would have become a second class powers, and America would have emerged the most important economic powerhouse in the world.

When America entered the war that changed the entire material and demographic dynamic, and Germany knew it was done. If America hadn't entered that war, WWII might not have broken out, as historians call WWII nothing more than an aftermath of WWI.  With all the European powers bankrupt, and without the support of Europe's economy, it's most likely Lenin's economic stupidity would have collapsed communist control of Russia, preventing their support of Chinese's communists, and America would no have embarked on over 100 years of wasted American blood and money interfering in failed military enterprises worldwide, getting involved in affairs for which we had nothing to do with. 

This argument that we need to police the world because anyone else would be bad isn't a valid argument to justify wasting untold gallons of American blood and untold billions of American dollars over the last 100 years. This lack of defensive readiness referred to in the article can directly be attributed to this worldwide "policing" effort. Let the world's nations worry about policing themselves! If they don't, won't, or can't, that's their problem.  By America staying out of WWI the European powers would have had to come to a stalemate, and Europe would have had to face up to their stupidity and fix it themselves. 

We're broke, we're exhausted, and we're being destroyed by all these failed worn out leftist globalist concepts, and now Biden want's give anther 24 billion dollars to Ukraine, and since the Democrats refuse to pass legislation that requires audits for that money, who knows whose pocket all that money is going into.