The practical value of an America first policy

Even like the greatest performers, the USA can only juggle so many balls at the same time. Keeping our focus on our core values and solving our core problems of today must always take priority for issues both foreign and domestic. Leaders and citizens should stick with the basics and what they know. This in itself is a full plate.

Dealing with eastern values and thought processes is often beyond our experience. To enter this world of tribes, clans, families, and thought processes is always beyond most Americans, to include our politicians. We need to elect “America first” politicians. Let the businessmen deal with the so complicated eastern world, at least so complicated to we westerners. This idea suggests most of our smartest military and foreign service types should stick with solving the America first core values, also. And this is a two-way street. Just read the instructions on some latest widget made in China and received over Christmas. That the widget was designed in America, as promoted by Apple, for example, just makes one proud to be an American. Back to the balance idea!

The obvious question is begged. Why does the entire Middle East and Arabian (Persian) Gulf area and the trans-Caucus get such a priority of our National effort and monies? Of course the fear of another 9/11 or worse is there, and our President is doing his approach with his idealistic policy of introducing western democracy to the this most eastern part of the world as his solution. Fine, but like the great performer, we can only juggle so many balls at the same time, and like many things, it is probably a matter of timing. And so little of our energy comes from this area, though that of Europe, Japan, and China does. So where are they if this area is so important to them, and it is, many think.

For those who like to read between the lines, they may interpret we cannot do it all everywhere, and we must pick and choose how to apply our assets to our problems. And we have bigger problems than this part of the world. Not that we ignore this part of the world, just put it in its proper place priority wise. For example, we do have other courses of action, to include the Russian brutal approach in Chechnya, which is a loser to we westerners. And we can do selective attacks to the core leaders who lead and finance these terrorist efforts, but obviously our political leaders have chosen not to do so (and we can’t get them all). But we can try attack them, which is the point, and they will know it, and lay low. That we have not done so is obvious as evidenced by our present policies in this part of the world. That the Iraqi politicians from the three major factions cannot still come to a nation-state solution should not let them be in charge of our USA policies which seem like cajoling and exasperation.

(More and more one can believe, or at least sense, that our American “politics of personal destruction” has run off the types of American leaders we need to balance and prioritize things out, and lead.)

So like an old political sales pitch, “come home America”. Let we voters elect “America first” politicians at the local, state, and federal levels. Let us conclude with three practical examples about “America first”. What is more important: getting shot while walking the family dog on Christmas Eve by a LA gang member going through initiation in Charlotte, NC; or trying to change thousands of years of history in Waziristan? What is more important: protecting American jobs by applying the same environmental rules to foreigners as Americans; or just letting illegal immigration continue with our present situation? What is more important: recreational drug use now applied to cocaine; or the bitter killing wars in Columbia where the FARC has evolved from revolutionary to a crime syndicate?