Let me ask you guys something. Do you believe the United States is, for the moment at least, providing stability for the free world, which includes not only what we know as the West, but also free Asian nations such as Japan, Thailand and Taiwan, as well as Israel in the Middle East? Let's call that collection the free world.
I don't want to get too carried away with the comparison, but I see the US at the moment providing approximately the same kind of anchor for the free world that Britain provided for the West until WW II.
The US's current situation in world affairs devolves from its ability during WW II to provide the Allies with massive amounts of materiel that allowed us to win that war and from its ability after the war to provide immense financial and material assistance for the reconstruction of Europe and Asia. The US then went on, for the next seventy some years to provide defense for the free world against the Soviet Union and its minions. It's still doing that. Most NATO nations provide only a fraction of the contributions to their defense they agreed to when NATO was formed. The US constantly makes up the difference.
But at the same time I see the ability of the US to continue as the stabilizer for the free world fraying at the edges as we take on more debt, let our military degenerate as a result of political pressure from the left, and become more and more apathetic about, and even resistant to the demands made upon us for our own defense.
Nothing lasts forever, and the US isn't going to last forever, any more than Britain or Rome or Byzantium did. And that's a scary thought, or at least it should be if you're one of the societies depending on the US for your defense.
If your answer to my first question was "yes," then you ought to be concerned by what's going on with US education, starting in grade school and running all the way through the universities. Our kids are being taught pacifism and their need for and right to safe spaces. A large number of our universities won't even allow ROTC on campus.
I guess my final question is, if you're concerned about any of this why aren't you concerned when conservatives -- the people willing to protect you -- are shouted down and denigrated at our universities?
In the end, I'm convinced we've reached the point where it's going to take a wakeup call, something like a Great Depression or a World War (hopefully without nukes) to change what's gradually happening to the US. The question then will be whether or not the US can survive. If it doesn't, the free world will go down with it.
I'm 88, so I'll have no personal involvement in what's coming, but I have a flock of grandkids and great-grands. I worry about them. On the other hand, I know it'll be their problem. Not mine, just as Korea and Vietnam were mine. But I hope they'll have help.