CASE FOR MAINTAINING AMERICAN MILITARY POWER Kagan is the greatest military hist

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307961311/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkTHE CASE FOR MAINTAINING AMERICAN MILITARY POWER

Kagan is the greatest military historian alive, and likely one of the best in all of intellectual history. In this wonderful book, he cautions us not to abandon “The World America Made”. (The world the English people made, and the American people inherited upon the suicide of European civilization.) He uses the collapse of the Roman Empire, and the collapse of the European Empires to illustrate what would happen if American withdrew from her empire.

Now, my approach is not as moralistic as Kagan’s. It’s entirely practical. That said, it is not in our interests to conduct nation building, or to subsidize Europe. In fact, my main criticism of imperialism is that we should withdraw from Europe and maintain our bases elsewhere. All that we accomplish by subsidy of Europe is to make possible the political culture there that the progressive left looks at imitating. All the while not comprehending that such a political culture is only possible under the protection of a benevolent empire like the USA.