Forget Lincoln, Obama Should Emmulate Clinton

Now Obama tells the French that the US is arrogant. Meanwhile, Russia suggests that we decrease the size of our nuclear arsenal. And then it occurs to me. Both problems could be solved with the same solution using an unlikely model: Clinton. Seriously, we’re in this military alliance with Europe, right? But how many of the member nations are strong enough to repel an invasion from a country like North Korea, for example. Obama stated that the main reason for pulling out of Iraq is because Iraq will never defend itself if you do it for them. All the European governments are at least as stable as Iraq (even France now that it’s on its fifth republic) but we have made them in to military welfare wards. It’s US arrogance that makes us think we have the right and responsibility to defend Europe. Clinton told welfare recipients in this country that they had three years and the payments would end. Iraq only has one year to fend for itself. The Europeans may need time to readjust budgets (since they have the pesky “Don’t borrow trillions of dollars” rule), so maybe they get five. Obama should take the missiles Russia wants us to get rid of and give it to the Europeans as our final welfare payment. Then all the soldiers come home. Half of them could be deployed along our northern and southern borders to stop the flow of illegal human and drug traffic. The rest can find jobs in the newly stimulated economy. The savings could be used to pay for that socialized medicine the Europeans have been lecturing us about. We will announce that if war breaks out, we intend to follow the Clinton model. We might lob a few missiles at the aggressor, fly a few sorties overhead, and maybe even bomb the local Chinese embassy, but that’s it. Unless you are like Rwanda and we really don’t like you, then we will just let the UN take care of it. The North Koreans are selling weapons to all their friends; why can’t we do the same? Besides, we need the money to fund all that cool socialism the Europeans have. Now I don’t expect the Europeans to take us seriously at first. Maybe they need Iran to bomb them a couple of times while we stand by (Call it tough love. Hey, it made Monica a stronger person). But wouldn’t it be great to turn on the news just once and learn that Belgium had just tested a missile?