Reply #84: These other nations aren't funding our military and they won't replace our dead or heal or broken. [View All]

[TheKentuckian]

These nations have military forces and warm bodies.

How are justifying the actions to those in harm's way or to our budget? The pie is only so large, so what are you cutting to offset the expense or are just borrowing the money? If so then who is stuck with tab, I would say it is safe to say the taxpayer, so how have you justified to us that we are getting a return?

I support the idea of helping the Libyans too but justification is elusive on grounds of national interest or self defense. The legal process has been dicey, at best.

So, what we have here is a use of force based on desperate humanitarian needs, I find this understandable but it is a dangerous to set a precedent that says we can just commence to action, commit any level of national resources, and put American lives on the line because the CiC thinks things are bad somewhere whether other world leaders concur or not.

This isn't a policy, it is a reaction. Reactions are not justification for risking blood and treasure nor are requests since the US is more than a cover band. Nor do we have a constitutional dictate to play world police force, in fact I would go further and say their is no legal dictate whatsoever to play global police.

Since we operate under the concept of a limited government which means powers are granted to the government from and on behalf of the people and this jumping in and the Pax Americana stuff is well beyond any authorization of power and is as such a perversion of authority and our system.