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yeoman6987

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2. I am the lone yes so far

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 09:12 AM

Sep 2014

The President is 100 percent correct. When there is a weather tragedy in a poor country. Who do the call for help? The United States. When there is an Ebola breakout, who goes to help? The United States. Heck when we stayed out of Thailand during the emergency years ago when the Earthquake caused ripples of waves to crash on their coasts and caused massive flooding. Who did they say took to long to help? The United States. We are called upon for every issue going on in the World first. Is it fair? No. But that is the way it is. If we stop being helpful. The results will not be pretty for the rest of the World.

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Do you agree with President Obama that "we are the indispensable nation"? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 OP

What he said is generally true, but that doesn't make us "indispensable." Orsino Sep 2014 #1

I am the lone yes so far yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #2

"Other" H2O Man Sep 2014 #3

No one country is singularly indispensable. Acting as such weakens neighbors who never have to do KittyWampus Sep 2014 #4

Same reason I didn't vote madokie Sep 2014 #6

We are the country that the world looks up to for leadership madokie Sep 2014 #5

I don't think in those terms. Whether we are or are not, what's the point? cali Sep 2014 #7

Underestimated? Horseshit. They knew exactly what was going down, and they've known Zorra Sep 2014 #8

Who you gonna call? CJCRANE Sep 2014 #9

Socially, I think we are aligned with the future in a way that no other country is BeyondGeography Sep 2014 #10

I think it to be a dangerous outlook for our citizens, but great for the egotists who... dmosh42 Sep 2014 #11

Of course not. Iggo Sep 2014 #12

Such nationalistic hubris precedes the fall of empires. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #13

I find the whiney self-pity in that statement very troubling, to be honest. bemildred Sep 2014 #14

" Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. " DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2014 #17

We make ourselves indispensable. All of our interference in other countries both by the US jwirr Sep 2014 #15

Team America World Police, Fuck Yeah!!! NightWatcher Sep 2014 #16