Using Our Armed Forces to Do Good
This should piss Dan off pretty good.
It is the second incident of piracy reported in recent days. A second U.S. Navy destroyer was searching waters off Somalia for pirates who hijacked a Japanese-owned ship, military officials said.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I’m unclear as to why this should piss me off. I suppose a smaller patrol vessel would be a more cost-effective anti-piracy ship than an $800,000,000 destroyer, but you know… whatever floats your boat.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Using out military to help out other countries is the opposite of an isolationist policy. Hell you’re not even sure you would of intervened in WW2 a much more understandable example of turning away from an isolationist policy.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Use of naval forces in deterring piracy doesn’t have a whole lot in common with an amphibious invasion of a sovereign nation.
As for what I “would of” done? If you want to set up a hypothetical situation and ask me what I would do, you’ll have to explain what you are talking about:
1: At what date am I making this decision?
2: What information do I have to access to at this time?
3: Who am I? What sort of policy-making responsibility do I actually have, in whichever nation I apparently have the power to do something that involves making a foreign policy decision within? Or am I just an abstract personification of a particular nation in this hypothetical situation?