Top Economic Advisors Predict WWIII?

[crushing]

Who says China can't be allowed 'that opportunity'? America? with it's anti communism? Who says anyone has the right to overthrow Gaddafi other than Libyans? America takes an awful lot on itself to to decide who and what is allowed to do things in the world. Perhaps it's time you stepped away from deciding how countries rule themselves. Don't say that other countries want America to do this, they really don't, it's a vanity that Americans perpetuate, that the rest of the world wants them as a 'policeman'.

Me? I don't say those things. You must have me confused with the people that matter.

 

[celtic_crippler]

Let us withdraw our military and financial aid and see how quick many countries start crying.

I personally think our overstretching of resources is a contributing factor to the devaluation of the dollar which is in turn leading to the poor economic conditions cited by the economic advisers in the OP.

 

[seasoned]

Let us withdraw our military and financial aid and see how quick many countries start crying.

I personally think our overstretching of resources is a contributing factor to the devaluation of the dollar which is in turn leading to the poor economic conditions cited by the economic advisers in the OP.

I'm on board with that, I guess we're not all warmongers.

 

[Tez3]

Let us withdraw our military and financial aid and see how quick many countries start crying.

I personally think our overstretching of resources is a contributing factor to the devaluation of the dollar which is in turn leading to the poor economic conditions cited by the economic advisers in the OP.

Well lets look at the countries. America gives Israel a lot of money but it has to be spent buying American weapons.
It also gives money to Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and other Arab countries and to Christian groups in Nigeria. For some reason it also gives to China.

Until recently the UK was giving the US millions of dollars every year to pay for the help we got from America in the Second World War. The total was $7.5bn. The final payment was in 2006.

It's seems though that you aren't giving as much money away as you think you are.
http://nationalpriorities.org/en/bl...how-much-aid-do-we-give-to-foreign-countries/

I did like the bit about 'training armies and helping them acquire weapons', so really you are helping insurgents fight against their governments, elected ones as well as non elected. either that or you are giving them money to spend buying your weapons as you do Israel.

 

[celtic_crippler]

I'm on board with that, I guess we're not all warmongers.

I fully support the withdrawal of all of our troops. I feel war should only be necessary for defense, not for the controlling of the socio-economic conditions of other countries. Leave that to them... the business of "empire building" never ends well.

 

[Tez3]

I fully support the withdrawal of all of our troops. I feel war should only be necessary for defense, not for the controlling of the socio-economic conditions of other countries. Leave that to them... the business of "empire building" never ends well.

It comes back to this anti communism thing though rather than empire building, America doesn't seem to want to control the countries per se rather they just don't want socialists or communists in government.

 

[James Kovacich]

Let us withdraw our military and financial aid and see how quick many countries start crying.

Hold back on our military support too!


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[Tez3]

Hold back on our military support too!


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Like that supplied to Egypt so the protestors can be put down or that supplied to the Taliban to fight the Russians.....
And this http://www.salon.com/2011/03/23/us_libya_arms_training/

 

[K-man]

It comes back to this anti communism thing though rather than empire building, America doesn't seem to want to control the countries per se rather they just don't want socialists or communists in government.

Well that just seems to have gone up another notch.

China muscles US in Pacific

WITHIN two decades the United States will be forced out of the western Pacific, says a senior Chinese military officer, amid concerns that increasingly militarised great-power rivalry could lead to war.
Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu, at the People's Liberation Army's National Defence University, told Fairfax Media this week that American strategic influence would be confined ''east of the Pacific midline'' as it is displaced by Chinese power throughout east Asia, including Australia.

''It's the most dangerous strategic crisis that the US has faced - that the world has faced - since the end of the Cold War,'' said Hugh White, former deputy secretary of the Department of Defence.
China and Japan, he said, were drifting closer to a war that could draw in the US. ''This makes rather a nonsense of the mantra we hear both from Gillard and Abbott that 'we don't have to choose between the US and China','' he said.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/china-muscles-us-in-pacific-20130215-2eiu3.html#ixzz2L0GduspM

It's enough to make you choke on your Corn Flakes. :asian: