The U.S. Military Needs to Defend the Country, Not Undermine American Security
05/16/2016
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Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute
As President Obama visits still-communist Vietnam, a former American
rival, in his “pivot to Asia” to recruit more countries to shelter
against a rising China, the trip only serves to illustrate the global
American Empire’s overextension. At the same time, he is opening missile
defenses in Europe, quadrupling U.S. military spending there, and
deploying more military forces near Russia—all of which will have the
effect of continuing to provoke that already insecure country. Also,
Obama has failed to withdraw U.S. ground forces from Afghanistan,
inserted them into Iraq and Syria to battle the terror group ISIS, and
continued his accelerated air wars over Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. Finally, the president sent the top
general in the Army to Africa to showcase U.S. efforts to train 38
countries to battle terror groups that could attack Europe, including
affiliates of ISIS and al Qaeda. These U.S. military forces may be
valiantly battling threats to the Empire, but most of them pose very
little threat to America.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/the-us-military-needs-to_b_9991458.html
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