On Monday 29 July 2002 7:39 am, you wrote:
> [Joe Dees 3] Both external and internal threats, military, paramilitary and
> terrorist, have to be addressed, and due to our status as superpower and
> world leader, we incur more of them, and we also in that function in effect
> subsidize many other countries by assuming their defence (which allows them
> to spend the funds that would otherwise have to be directed to these
> purposes on social spending); all this cannot be done on the cheap.
Bollocks. The US forces it "protection" by the use of force, treaties or
economic pressure, and even then it's to protect its own political interests.
The only reason Isreal has backing from the US is because of the large number
of Jewish lobbyists in the US. In most cases, the US isn't capable of going
into war without one of it's allies holding their hands.
And what do you think the Al Queda is attacking the US for? Those energizer
bunny adverts? The damned US military pressence in countries where it's not
wanted, and the stance the US is taking on Isreal probably doesn't help
either.
Now, if the US decided to actually train its military instead of giving them
guns and pointing in the direction to shoot, things might be different (more
"allied" troops were killed by USians during the Afghanistan conflict than
were killed by the Taliban. The same thing happened during Desert Storm.)
Instead, you train a army of people who can't think for themselves, run on
nothing byt anger (to quote Sun Tzu: Use anger to throw them into disarray)
and make fatal mistakes which cost the lives of innocent people, and then
pass off the mistakes as "expected collatoral damage".
And now it's time for Godwins Law.
The US has become very similar to Nazi Germany. You have a government which
doesn't trust its own citizens, the very people it is there to protect, rages
conventional and econimic war on any state it doesn't trust, and pushes its
own agendas instead of listening to the people, both domestic and foreign.
In summary, the US doesn't care about anyone but it's own citizens, and will
do anything to protect them, even if it means becoming the village thug to do
so.
I'll finish off with a quote of the Tao Te Ching...
Get rid of "learning" and there will be no anxiety.
How much difference is there between "yes" and "no"?
How far removed from each other are "good" and "evil"?
Yet what the people are in awe of cannot be disregarded.
Lao Tse
-- === Mark 'Nurgle' Collins http://www.thisisnurgle.org.uk Stupid IRC quote of the <variable time period>: <phoenix> insider, you'll have to excuse nurgle, he's the epitamy of evil
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