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No One Asked Me But… (March 26, 2014)

By DR. LARRY MOSES

No one asked me but… The Malaysian Airlines lost a Boeing 777 a little over 2 weeks ago.

The Ukrainians lost the Crimean to the Russians.

Now I have lost a lot of things in my lifetime. I have lost my keys, I have lost hundreds of pounds, I have lost my homework assignments and my phone. I even lost my car for three days when I was in college. But I have never lost anything larger than my vehicle.

However, probably the largest thing lost last week was the role of the United States as the policeman of the world. There are many who will hail this as a good thing. The only problem is there is no one to step up and fill that role. The game of world politics is now being played without a referee.

During the 19th Century, Great Britain patrolled the world maintaining order.

After War I, President Woodrow Wilson dreamed that a League of Nations would police the world. Members of this organization would put aside national interest in the interest of all mankind. Wilson was a college professor who never lived in the real world and therefore never understood it. He believed the world could be controlled through the good will of wise and beneficent world leaders. Surely, he thought, all enlightened men would see the need to sacrifice nationalism to maintain order in the world. The United States Senate, which has seldom been ruled by wise and beneficent men, thought otherwise and refused to allow the United States to join.

After WWII, the United Nations was formed with the same idealism. While all the major world powers joined the United Nations, none gave up their national interests.

While fighting under the banner of the United Nations, the United States reluctantly took over the role of policeman of the world. We fought the North Koreans and the Chinese “volunteers” over their invasion of South Korea and re-established that border. A coalition of nations, but basically the United States, got involved in Vietnam where the United States finally gave up and came home giving South Vietnam to a communist regime from Hanoi. We battled a dictator in Iraq under the U.N. banner until we decided enough was enough and have left the Iraqis to fend for themselves. When we went in search of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, we ended up involved in a battle with the native rebels we had supported against the Russians a decade earlier.

We now find ourselves at a loss as to what to do while Vladimir Putin does his imitation of Adolph Hitler in the Crimean. Mr. Putin called the bluff of the world’s policeman and he found out the policeman has no backbone.

One of the first lessons a good teacher learns is to never threaten that which cannot or will not be done. As soon as the student learns the threat is not real, there will be chaos. The world’s policeman refused to halt Hitler’s gradual takeover of his neighbors in the 1930’s allowing him to continue his empire building. Vladimir Putin will continue to copy Hitler’s playbook until someone step ups and stops him.

What Putin has revealed to the world is that civilization has once again fallen into a state where it is every nation for itself. The Ukraine capitulation, in its loss of the Crimea, is the greatest example of a failure to “stand your ground.”

It is an extension of the policy being foisted on the American people at home. That is: if someone wants your lunch money, you should let them have it for it is better to live a coward than to die resisting a criminal.

The Ukrainian military made that choice in the Crimea and this should be understood by every American liberal who opposes one defending oneself. The Ukrainians gave up the Crimean without firing a shot. It was like giving up the Alamo without opposition. While no one died, a country was divided, and no heroic legends were made to sing about. There was no last stand, only capitulation to a dictator.

The American military is at its lowest numbers since the outbreak of WWII. What most don’t realize is that the military units acting as policemen around the world are for the most part National Guard units called to active duty. This is not the time to cut the military; it may be time to mobilize the military so we will not be caught as we were at the beginning of World War II.

In this day of modern warfare, we will not have the luxury of an ocean to protect us and holding actions that will allow us to militarize our industries, which we have destroyed, by allowing our manufacturing to go overseas. It will not be a matter of converting factories, as in the past; factories will have to be built.

A nation that once was built by those who knew hard work will have to rely on a mass of people who have grown up relying on government handouts. We will not only have to retool our manufacturing, we will have to reform our people to the notion of hard work. We may be able to outsource our lawns and building trades to illegal immigrants, but I doubt if they will be willing to pick up arms to defend us. This may be one job we have to do ourselves and one must wonder if we have the stomach for it.

Thought of the week…History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

– Ronald Reagan

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