So Obama has decided to remove missile defenses in Eastern Europe. Apparently, this has many conservatives and neoconservatives outraged over what really amounts to sound foreign policy in my view. Actually, this is something I agree with the President on.
You see, all of you old folks, the Cold War is over. We won. The Soviet Union is gone and all that is left is a broken shell of a country that is grasping at what little dignity they can find. The Russians themselves are quickly becoming extinct as a people because of decades of secular humanist values enforced on their society. Shockingly, without religion, people tend not to breed like rabbits.
So you see, the Russians are fading away. It will not surprise me if in a century from now, if this trend continues, they will no longer exist like so many other races in the history of humanity. At the very least, they will no longer exist as the same people we are dealing with today.
It is funny how these missile bases are being referred to as missile defense systems. They were not defensive weapons at all. They were offensive designed to deter Russia from attacking our allies. That is not defense, but a direct threat hanging over their heads. It does not make for great friends, especially from a country with nuclear weapons, a chip on their collective shoulders, and nothing much to lose.
This is the old Cold War mentality that has failed to leave our bloated military bureaucracy. I see these military bureaucrats all the time and they are not soldiers. They are bureaucrats through and through utilizing the same old, tired strategies and for some reason seeing an enemy in Russia where there is none. Is Russia going to invade Poland now? All indications are that they will not, but somehow every conservative is crying bloody murder over this.
The truth this missile defense system should have been dismantled a decade ago and we should have decommissioned all military bases that were designed to protect us from the Soviet Union. The Russian Federation is well established and they have only been aggressive against smaller nations that have antagonized them. There was no reason to maintain any of this, yet for some reason, the bureaucratic machine rolls on.
Another question is: why do we have to provide for the defense of other nations? We can make alliances with them, we can trade with them, but why should we be providing defense for them? An alliance suggests that we will come to their aid when they are in need, something our military can execute with brutal efficiency despite the headless chickens in the Pentagon. In fact, the only thing government is good at is breaking things and the military was designed to do just that.
Poland and the Czech Republic should defend themselves and only call on our aid when they can no longer do that. Having our missiles in those nations pointed at Russia just makes us look stupid and unnecessarily antagonizes a sovereign nation that no longer has world conquering ambitions.
But the most disgust I get out of this story is that many conservatives fail to see their own logical shortfalls in this matter. Today I stopped listening to Rush Limbaugh because in his opening monologue, he derided Obama for this missile deal and at the same time derided him for supporting government waste and excess. That is intellectual hypocrisy at its finest.
So conservatives these days are for pointless missile defense systems that would not defend us against jack crap, but oppose all other non-military forms of government waste. You know that President Bush capped all domestic spending and kept it from growing too much, except for military spending. He also took our national debt from about 5 trillion to 10 trillion. My guess is that all of that was mostly military spending.
If conservatives are ever going to save face and stick to their principles of limited government, they will stop playing the old Cold War-era politics and step into the next century. Until then, I am proud to be a libertarian and I oppose government waste in all its forms, be it non-military or military.