Kyle Murao: In Defense of Global Policing
I welcome Chinese assertiveness on the global stage…provided that it accepts that for at least the next 100 years, America and our allies will retain virtually complete control of the key waterways in Southeast Asia which are so critical to global economic prosperity.
.. But what the critics utterly, incomprehensibly, unforgivablyfail to grasp is how manymore wars American arms have prevented–and continue to prevent.
.. We don’t have an aggressive security policy simply because we like to be bullies. We have an aggressive security policy because as the world’s wealthiest country and one of its biggest exporters of culture and soft power, it is in the interest of ourselves and everyone else that we maintain security globally.
.. Bottom line: where they are deployed abroad, American troops are not disrupters of peace and tyrannical imperialists. They are all that stands between ethnic, religious and cultural conflicts that are hundreds of years old (if not thousands) and would almost certainly break out into open bloody wars if left unguarded.
.. But we need to keep in mind that acquisition of weapons systems (submarines, tanks, missiles, drones, stealth technology) is extremely expensive. And we need to continue to invest in hardware that is so far advanced that troublemakers will say, “Today is not the day to start a fight with the world’s policeman,” and those that are too foolish will be quickly slapped down.