The U.S. should no longer reflexively pay for and protect all of Western civilization

The U.S. should no longer reflexively pay for and protect all of Western civilization

Denying the U.S. the use of its European bases is an insane level of ingratitude and entitlement.

Eric Utter for American Thinker 

The United States has to be done paying for everything and everyone in the rest of the world.

We have to go back to the Founders' vision of not entangling ourselves in foreign conflicts, unless it is clearly, absolutely in our best and vital interest to do so.

This is not a criticism of the decision to attack Iran, per se. Any reasonable person can see that there could be great benefit to knocking out or laying low a nation with Iran's destructive capabilities, a nation that has made it clear for almost half a century that it would love nothing more than to kill the Great Satan.

But the United States must re-examine its role in NATO, which heretofore has been to pay for everything and protect everybody else in the organization.

That imbalance cannot long work for any nation, the United States included. It is also deeply unfair, unjust, and detrimental to the European nations themselves.

Just as a complete and utter long-term reliance on welfare destroys an individual’s motivation — and soul. It is, in a word, immoral. And, if we are being truthful, it is likely part of the reason Europe is as sadly enervated as it now is. Europe would be better off if it was able to defend itself. After all, it has a population much greater than that of the United States and a GDP many, many times greater than that of Russia.

That it can't, or hasn't, seen to its own defense is a pathetic travesty. When countries have the mindset of what they can't do, and what they shouldn't do, and self-flagellate, they become treasonous to their own citizens and worthless to everyone else. Call it the Dominion Syndrome. You have formally proud entities like the U.K. and Canada that are now nothing more than national versions of an unemployed, non-binary, non-viable tissue mass with blue hair and a nose ring.

The U.N., which adores American dollars and is mostly funded by them, despises everything else American, and should be kicked out of New York. It is not rational to pay people to hate you, either on the part of the haters or the “hatees” to coin a word. Every culture that has ever lived until now has realized that obvious truth, just as they were eminently able to tell a man from a woman. Emasculated nations are not a good thing, not advanced, not progressive. They are useless at best and dangerous nearly always.

America has been the most generous country in the history of the world, and there is no runner up -- whether in money or blood. How many Americans have died for the freedoms of others? How many from other nations have died for the freedoms of Americans? It is about damn time we Americans were sick to death of this double standard. The other nations, in which it is so fashionable to trash America and Americans, simply and pathetically illustrate their envy and jealousy.

Too many European nations seem to think that, for some reason, the United States needs to protect them with its lives and lucre. Yet, if and when the U.S. asks for their cooperation, they deny us use of the very military bases that we paid for and that they wanted on their soil for their protection. That is an insane level of ingratitude and entitlement.

It is high time we put a stop to it. For everyone’s sake.

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