What is America’s obligation to keep the rest of the world alive?

[mystery-ak]

June 3, 2025
What is America’s obligation to keep the rest of the world alive?
By Andrea Widburg

The Pax Romana was a two-hundred-year period during which Rome’s influence led to a time of relative peace and prosperity as BC transitioned to AD. It wasn’t a Roman welfare program that did it. It was that Rome, by creating a stable empire, quashed most regional conflict and enabled enriching trade.

I had the same understanding of the Pax Americana that has existed since the end of World War II. Although America did not create a geographic and political empire in the way the Romans did, we took it upon ourselves to keep the peace around as much of the world as possible, allowing trade to flourish. The trade certainly benefited us, but it also came at a price, for we funded the free world’s wars against communism, both with blood and treasure.

One would think that enabling large swaths of the world to remain free, and fighting and/or funding their wars, would be enough. However, according to leftists, it’s not enough.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

It's the responsibility of each and every person to keep the world alive in a manner of their own choosing, and to hold those in power accountable.

What's the UN doing besides collaborating with Hamas?

[mountaineer]

My question for you, and it’s a serious one, is how great is our obligation to provide healthcare to the world’s poor? Once, I know that this was considered to be something of a moral personal obligation, especially amongst Christians, who donated money for various health-related missionary programs. But do we as a nation bear this obligation that taxpayers must be forced to fund at the point of a gun?

There is no collective responsibility. It only is a matter of conscience, a moral personal obligation.

[Fishrrman]

There is no "obligation" to keep "the rest of the world" alive.

Let's pretend that there was.
As mayor Ed Koch used to say, "how are we doing???"

[corbe]

    Jesus preached Love and Compassion but I'm not feeling it.

[mountaineer]

    Jesus preached Love and Compassion but I'm not feeling it.

I have gobs of love and compassion. Exhibiting it through my own financial generosity is on me, however, not on my fellow taxpayers.