Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday denounced those who advocate “an American retreat from responsibility” and said sustained U.S. leadership is needed to help keep the world as safe, free and prosperous as possible. He also urged Congress to end the partisan gridlock that has stalled the federal budget and war spending.
The United States must reject calls to turn away from global interests and become more isolationist, he told an audience of lawmakers, corporate and defense leaders and government officials attending a security conference. Those who “try to pull up the drawbridge,” he said, undermine the security that has led to decades of prosperity.
American doesn’t even fulfill its responsibility to take care of its own citizens at home. What a cop out excuse.
We have no responsibility to help Israel continue operations in Gaza once it stops being a defensive operation, and we’re about a month and a half beyond that now.
Since a Hamas has publicly stated that they intend to do more Oct 7th raids, logic would say that it’s always been a defensive operation.
How many of them are even left alive to do those raids at this point?
Well, there are enough left to fire missles on Israel.
A handful of people with RPGs are not going to be able to conduct a massive coordinated raid.
They are rocket barrage. The iron dome doesn’t engage RPGs. rocket barrage was part of Oct 71h too.
I guess that excuses their continuing genocide.
Fairly lame even for you.
We are not the world police.
🎵 America… Fuck yeah 🎵
America does need a National Retreat. There needs to be an order that all Americans retreat to their bed until warmer weather.
Big Lloyd is right.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday denounced those who advocate “an American retreat from responsibility” and said sustained U.S. leadership is needed to help keep the world as safe, free and prosperous as possible.
The United States must reject calls to turn away from global interests and become more isolationist, he told an audience of lawmakers, corporate and defense leaders and government officials attending a security conference.
His message of rejecting isolationism appeared directed at conservative lawmakers who are increasingly opposed to spending on overseas wars and back former President Donald Trump’s “America First’” ideology.
Congress has failed to approve any new money for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and has managed to pass only a short-term budget bill, known as a continuing resolution, that runs out early next year.
Austin also noted that as much as $50 billion of that supplemental budget request for the wars would through American defense companies, helping to create or support tens of thousands of jobs in 30 states.
In other comments, Austin underscored the administration’s repeated insistence that Israel do more to protect civilians as it restarts its air assault against Hamas after a seven-day cease-fire to secure the release of prisoners.
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Those who “try to pull up the drawbridge,” he said, undermine the security that has led to decades of prosperity.
Those decades of security and power were brought to you by the atom bomb and being the only one left standing after WW2. It’s time to learn to coexist with others who have caught up on a level playing field. We’re going to become a regular irrelevant country again, deal with it. It kills these people when they imagine themselves not being able to police and manipulate the world.
We’re going to become a regular irrelevant country again, deal with it.
Nah. That’s completely unacceptable
We should be minding our own damn business as a country.
We can mind our own business and remain leaders in world affairs by focusing our efforts on issues that involve the entire community and step back from the cowboy diplomacy of the Bush era. We stop acting unilaterally and start acting cooperatively, backing UN resolutions that enhance human rights and progress and supporting allies who are defending themselves.
Exactly what some said before WWII. Then on December 7th, we found out different.
Someone is going to lead world policy. A leadership vacuum will be filled. I’d strongly prefer the US claim the position than, say, China.
