The Camp Pendleton Speech by POTUS was on and I was listening. There's a lot of bellicose talk going on there along with salutations for those lost in the quagmires. Hoorah! Nevermind suicide rates are astronomical and veterans wait years for benefits because mountains of files are waiting to be gone through. We have a sequester you know. Nothing like reneging on our duty to support the troops and actually give them what they deserve, right?
We're bad ass and we're not going to back down! Terrorists! Amurika! Pretty formulaic, Go Corps! Then.....
But, of course, the end of the war in Afghanistan doesn’t mean the end of threats to our nation. As I’ve said before, even as we decimated the al Qaeda leadership that attacked us on 9/11, al Qaeda affiliates and like-minded extremists still threaten our homeland, still threaten our diplomatic facilities, still threaten our businesses abroad. And we've got to take these threats seriously and do all we can to confront them. We’ve been reminded of this again in recent days.
.....still threaten our businesses abroad. What? OK, I get the "homeland". I prefer our own soil or the land within our sovereign borders etc., but "our businesses abroad"? No. Full stop. That is not our function to go about the globe protecting
our businesses. The US doesn't have businesses. It is a government.
Citizens have businesses and the US Government should not be used to protect them or promote them in other countries. It's a far stretch to have the military protect our diplomatic facilities as well. That's not according to Hoyle, the host country is supposed to do that.
But businesses? Since when? Hey businesses, if you want to do your thing in another country, you pay your money and you take your chances, you don't get to take the Army as your personal muscle. Go hire Blackwater or something. Don't expect US taxpayers to subsidize your risk. And POTUS.......I noticed this remark. It stuck out among the rest of the glory glory US mean old terrorists schtick. I didn't see this business protection in the Constitution. The Constitution is about here, in this country, for our citizens, not for businesses who flit about the planet. If you go to another country to do business, then you have to deal with that country and all that entails. Military protection is not for businesses it is for national defense, which definition has been stretched to the breaking point at this juncture anyway. Now you want to add businesses abroad? Forget that. I can't believe you even said it.