The world hates my country. If we do nothing, we get screamed at that we're doing nothing while the world goes up in flames. If we step in, we get screamed at that we're the cause of all the world's troubles. If we stop and consider we get screamed at that we're fiddling while Rome burns. When 60% of the world decides its OK for us to actually do something that involves our military, the world loses their shit when actual military things happen.
I gave up on the world and world opinions long ago. If it's the considered thought by the world at large that we should just leave everything alone, then, well, that's fine by me. I don't think we should beg Israel to temper their response against Hamas and other terrorist governments, or hold off on hitting Iran. I don't think we should send food to Central Africa for any reason. I don't think we should share our processor technologies with Taiwan and China. I don't think we should grant any more H1-B Visas, nor outsource programming jobs to Bangalore. I don't think we should sell military hardware to our allies who ask for it. I don't think we should honor any more treaties regarding fishing rights in the North Atlantic. I don't think we should allow any more international network routing traffic to go through the US. I don't think we should buy Saudi oil. The reason we don't is we're too timid to exploit what we do have, which is actually plenty. I don't think we should sell food to the rest of the world.
If the world hates us so much, and what I've learned over the last 20 years is that it almost universally does, then we should just fuck right off and let them get along without us.
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