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https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-on-rising-threats-in-world-america-can-never-be-neutral-between-good-and-evil
Former South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley said
during a speech over the weekend that the United States can
never remain neutral when it comes to the battle between
good and evil.
Haley made the remarks during a speech primarily about Israel
on Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership
Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“The world is on fire. But here in America, we’re acting like
it’s September 10, when we were blind to the world’s dangers,”
. . .
The USA prefers to keep its head buried in the sand.
Only when things get VERY bad, when WE are very
directly attacked, does the USA feel like doing
something. This was how we dealt with WW-1 and WW-2.
Now during the Cold War, the USA really did try to
be pro-active against existing and possible Soviet
expansionism. This didn't always work out well either.
Insofar as the middle-east/Jihadism goes, we have
also had mixed levels of involvement, and mixed
results. In that region, we too often do not seem
to know WHY things are happening, WHAT the locals
think about it - and thus cannot approach the
problems correctly. Americans think like Americans
and too often just ASSUME everyone else does as well.
In short, neither isolationism OR gung-ho interventionism
are going to be a good policy position for the USA. It
is almost random chance as to what is going to work out
and what will not. So, alas, every situation needs to
be studied carefully before we pick our level and type
of intervention.
To a degree, Haley is correct. "Moral relativism" tends
to paralyze the USA and we miss good opportunities. On
the flip, what is "good" and "evil" DOES vary across the
globe, meaning we might try to impose what cannot be
successfully imposed.
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