[RunItUpTheGut]

Hard to believe how ill informed many people are with regard to American history. I remember a time not so long ago when a Democrat wouldn't have dared to openly castigate their Republican counterparts. Politicians live in glass houses therefore, rock throwing was not such a smart thing to do. Further unlike today, Democrats back then put country ahead of party. In this day in time, harm to our nation for the sake of winning an election would seem to fall into the category of acceptable collateral damage for the Dems I hear bloviating out on the trail.

Chaos has characterized this world since it's inception, it follows that it's patently absurd to suggest that Republicans are responsible for wars and terrorism since most of world history happened before they got here. On the contrary, it is the strong and sage statesmanship on the part of our national leaders (both Republican and Democrat) that actually restored some form of world order and relative peace to the planet following WW2. A lot of people who've not known the horror of world war or have not been able to learn of that horror from history, naively believe that all we really have to do is play nicey nicey and the peoples of earth will be big buddies.

One has to wonder why ISIS did rise if that were the case. We've kissed up to the Arab World, especially and including the bad boy of that area, Iran, about as much as the US Treasury will bear and yet, they're burning the Middle East to the ground anyway. And FTR, the Middle East destabilized under this administration. There are some very bad people in this world who can only be controlled by vastly superior military might and the willingness to use same. Russia is busy trying to reassemble the Soviet Union. China is busy building a military force that we would be hard pressed to deal with, and let's not forget they're nuclear too. Nuclear North Korea is ruled by a terrorist thug. I would just ask one question to those who think world peace is a mere matter of kissing up. What is the one thing that all the nations I have mentioned have in common? The answer is a mutual hatred of the US, and the fact that they would all be dancing in the streets if America were on fire.

Rand Paul, though I will admit is a much better legislator than any Democrat I can think of, is still out of left field when it comes to some issues. Back during WW2 the US was awash with people who wanted to stay out of the war, isolationists they called them. Back then the great oceans of our planet gave us some measure of protection against military aggression. Not so in our time. If China or Russia moved everything they could get into the air and on the sea against us, we'd be lucky to survive as a nation. So, give me legislators who can al least be honest and accurate in assessing the level of threat that exists out there.

Ive often found myself thinking about isolationism as a nation, and I prefer to stay out of affairs, especially when other world leader do not feel the need to step up and contribute, but in todays world, is almost impossible as a country to stay away from different affairs.
You bring up a good point about China or Russia, or worse, both, throwing everything they got at us at one time and figuring out if we could hold steady.
To be honest, China will never make that mistake. If they did send 90% of there military to attack out home land, theres would be lost to Japan in a week. IMO, China would have to leave at least half there army at home at all times, which as you know consist mostly of ground troops.
Russia on the other hand may be stupid enough to try, although im not sure why as I feel we could decimate theyre entire forces in a short amount of time, and there structure and pride just isn't what it was. I feel like they would have an enormous amount of deserters.
But, even if these countries, and all others decided to attack us at once, im still fully in belief that the things we have under wraps and secretly stashed away would be the ends of all others that try. In the end, we would have a successful nuclear missile defense while they couldn't stop ours. And we would take it to that level if we needed to save our lands.