Saddam captured

[Radar]

Security is great, but a gun in the hand does nothing unless you have business to keep food on the table.

And the business would still be there at the same level, if not more so.

Investors and companies look to put their money in places that will be able to do international business and that trade routes to other countries will always remain open and stable.

Investing is gambling. If you invest in a foreign country, you deal with their government, their security, and their laws. The US Military is NOT here to defend trade routes, or investments made in other countries. Those are not within the scope of our military or in my opinion, anyone else's either.

Again, not the kind of stability you are thinking of. In today's environment, the ability to do business internationally is the most critical aspect. If you have no one to do business with overseas on a constant, secure, and stable level, then there are no expansion or investment opportnities for you

Those are the chances you take as an investor. It's not reasonable to expect the government to defend your foreign investments. If you want to do business internationally, you should choose who you do business with wisely and don't make such unreasonable demands of government. Also if investors find less opportunity internationally, they'll invest more domestically.

I do not support a "one world government" and that is not what I'm talking about -- I'm just stating what the current state of international business is: a collection of governments that all back one another and, through their collective strength, have come to dominate and succeed through their agreements.

International business has been done by each country providing their own security in their own country. It's not up to America to defend other countries, and it's unrealistic to expect them to protect America in case of a war. They handle their end and we handle ours. It's called personal responsibility. We trade internationally by trading freely with all countries and honoring contracts with them. If they don't honor ours, we stop trading with them. Those who want our money, will quicky learn to make sure investments from America are secure.

Diversity in the world is a good thing, but there has been a single dominating factor in international business for the more than the past one hundred years: the almighty US dollar

I've got news for you, the US dollar is worthless. It has nothing to back it up and it's not even made by the government. Other country's currency has been moving up against the dollar for decades.

That dollar doesn't hold its stength in gold backing or the ability of this country to freely trade -- that dollar is accepted practically everywhere in this world because the US has the power it does, it exerts the power it does, and there is an incredible stability between the US and all of its allies across the globe.

If you're asserting that the dollar has value due to our military interventionism, you're not only not in the same ball park, you're not even in the same sport. That claim has no validity what-so-ever.

People see the US and our allies as an incredible, powerful business trading empire. Why? Because everyone knows that business will go about uninterrupted between all of our partners and investments will remain stable and secure. If the US were to back down on all of the agreements it has with other countries and essentially become a defensive island that welcomes free trade, you would see the value of the dollar hit rock bottom -- the trust in it and all it represents to the international community would fail, just as the security and trust of other countries would flounder.

Bullshit.

If America stopped sticking our noses into the affairs of other nations, we'd do MORE business and have more stability in the business world. People would know we'd have less enemies, and trade wouldn't be restricted or hampered by wars. People trade with America because we're the wealthiest nation on earth and that has everything to do with capitalism and nothing to do with treaties that promise to use the American military to defend other nations. We're not wealthy because of our military interventionism or because of the government's screwing around with the markets. We're wealthy in spite of it. And we would be even more wealthy, powerful, and stable if we pulled out of any treaty that promises to use our military to defend any other nation.