I realize this is not a popular sentiment, but I don't give a damn

[greiner3]

51. "What some of you advocate is surrendering the global leadership..."

And this so called global leadership is bankrupting us, causing our leaders to take the offensive in every little squabble and setting us up for 'king of the mountain', the kids game where one kid is 'it' and everybody else rushes at the poor sap so as to overthrow the 'king' which always ends up with the king becoming defeated.

This is why the UN was set up, the world's police, not one nation, whether it be us, Russia, China or some despots who gain their power through their own 'shock and awe'.

"The wealth and influence of the United States in the world did not simply appear out of thin air, or from disengagement."

No, our wealth and influence is the end product of our geological position; thousands of miles from most everything else in the world.

Egypt was in the same predicament in their thousands of years of rule.

They were surrounded by deserts and while they did lose some wars with 'Nubians', for most of 3,000 years held sway over modern day Egypt because of this fact.

But now with any point on the globe only part of a day away, our isolation will become less and less and there will be more attacks upon our 'homeland' and nothing can stop them.

BTW, our 'global leadership' came with such a high price; nuclear arms race (Cold War), Korea, Vietnam, US backed South and Central American dictators propped up by the CIA, Grenada, Afghanistan and Iraq and now Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Russia and ????????

Sounds as though you invest heavily in defense stocks whose only profits come from wars; what a country!