1) The $17 trillion debt crisis was caused by social program spending by an ultra-liberal, very likely Marxist. It was not caused by us "policing the world." Bush had a handle on the spending for Iraq and Afghanistan and was in the process of actually paying down the wars' debt before this idiot we have in the White House now lied his way into office.
2) Neoconservatives don't want to police the world anymore than anyone else. That's the misnomer that isolationists can't seem to grasp.
However Clinton and Little Marxist Dictator gutted our military -- and the latter continues in his intent to decimate it. If not for that, we wouldn't have to police the world. All we'd have to do is threaten to show up offshore of some belligerent country, or overfly them with a couple flights of B-1s and B-2s, remind them we're watching, and that would be the end of it.
If we had shown Russia any threat of force whatsoever when they invaded Crimea, even a hyper-nationalist like ol' Vlad would withdraw from Ukraine. Liberals don't have the guts to show force. They'd rather engage in magical thinking that tells them "diplomacy" will resolve the crisis. Recent example: Kerry's nine months of "diplomacy" between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinians want nothing less than the annihilation of Israel, and are not rational enough to "talk peace." Most of the liberal American public, as well as Kerry and the White House, utterly fail to grasp that truth.
There comes a time when, regardless of whether we can "afford it" or not, action has to be taken. With the Russian-Ukraine situation, we could have nipped this in the bud and kept everybody in place, grumbling but at an uneasy peace, just by showing a willingness to intervene. Now we've given Putin hope that he can do anything he wants, and with this airhead LMD in power, he probably can.
That just means somewhere down the road, we're going to fight the war we could have avoided weeks ago, by showing some cojones. The LMD doesn't have any.
