Don’t Walk Away from War It’s Not the American Way
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And the rude comments begin
Stop trolling and abusing me and my country ....otherwise you deserve more than that.
Calling me a 'terrorist' or 'terrorist symp'' is worse than calling you a shit bag!
I think you have lost cognitive capabilities...how do you want me to condemn terrorists? present you to them?
Like I mentioned before, let me know the next time you fly into a US controlled airport. I'm wanting to film a comedy
You can use this thread as your stage as you've also used it to condemn the US.
You are what you are....a terrorist sympathizer.
Anyone reading this thread can tell by your refusal to mutually condemn all that participate in war.
You side with terrorists.
Go back and reread what you've posted.
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Like I mentioned before, let me know the next time you fly into a US controlled airport. I'm wanting to film a comedy
I don't make friends with rascals who stab one behind his back!
My American lady friend is always there to defend me from rogues like you...and ya,, my Canadian gal friend will cut off your balls!
Strange that you call freedom of expression in a debate forum as propaganda!! Hell for you!
Fuck the terrorists and you, the bad Ohio extremist and hate monger bigot!
You ought to buy and read this book...
Day and night you sit on the internet shitting..isn't there anyone else in your house to kick your ass for wasting bandwidth??
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It appears Truth has made you lose your sleep....
take some more depression pills to get over your travail
I'm on a fast cable connection with a lot of bandwidth.
I often show my wife and visiting friends, your threads for a good laugh
I'll bet your Taliban handler didn't approve that statement.
Be careful......rhetoric like that might be difficult to explain.
You're just frustrated.
The NSA might look favorably on a positive post, mazHur
here is a positive post by Tom
5. The U.S. military is not "the finest fighting force the world has ever known" or "the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known," or any of the similar over-the-top descriptions that U.S. presidents are now regularly obligated to use. If you want the explanation for why this is so, see points one through four above. A military whose way of war doesn’t work, doesn’t solve problems, destabilizes whatever it touches, and never wins simply can’t be the greatest in history, no matter the firepower it musters. If you really need further proof of this, think about the crisis and scandals linked to the Veterans Administration. They are visibly the fruit of a military mired in frustration, despair, and defeat, not a triumphant one holding high history’s banner of victory.
As for Peace, Not a Penny
Is there a record like it? More than half a century of American-style war by the most powerful and potentially destructive military on the planet adds up to worse than nothing. If any other institution in American life had a comparable scorecard, it would be shunned like the plague. In reality, the VA has a far better record of success when it comes to the treatment of those broken by our wars than the military does of winning them, and yet its head administrator was forced to resign recently amid scandal and a media firestorm.
As in Iraq, Washington has a way of sending in the Marines, setting the demons loose, leaving town, and then wondering how in the world things got so bad -- as if it had no responsibility for what happened. Don’t think, by the way, that no one ever warned us either. Who, for instance, remembers Arab League head Amr Moussa saying in 2004 that the U.S. had opened the “gates of hell” in its invasion and occupation of Iraq? Who remembers the vast antiwar movement in the U.S. and around the world that tried to stop the launching of that invasion, the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets to warn of the dangers before it was too late? In fact, being in that antiwar movement more or less guaranteed that ever after you couldn’t appear on the op-ed pages of America’s major papers to discuss the disaster you had predicted. The only people asked to comment were those who had carried it out, beaten the drums for it, or offered the mildest tsk-tsk about it.
By the way, don’t think for a moment that war never solved a problem, or achieved a goal for an imperial or other regime, or that countries didn’t regularly find victory in arms. History is filled with such examples. So what if, in some still-to-be-understood way, something has changed on planet Earth? What if something in the nature of imperial war now precludes victory, the achieving of goals, the “solving” of problems in our present world? Given the American record, it’s at least a thought worth considering.
As for peace? Not even a penny for your thoughts on that one. If you suggested pouring, say, $50 billion into planning for peace, no less the $500 billion that goes to the Pentagon annually for its base budget, just about anyone would laugh in your face. (And keep in mind that that figure doesn’t include most of the budget for the increasingly militarized U.S. Intelligence Community, or extra war costs for Afghanistan, or the budget of the increasingly militarized Department of Homeland Security, or other costs hidden elsewhere, including, for example, for the U.S. nuclear arsenal, which is buried in the Energy Department’s budget.)
That possible solutions to global problems, possible winning strategies, might come from elsewhere than the U.S. military or other parts of the national security state, based on 50 years of imperial failure, 50 years of problems unsolved and wars not won and goals not reached, of increasing instability and destruction, of lives (American and otherwise) snuffed out or broken? Not on your life.
Don’t walk away from war. It’s not the American way.
Look into the mirror and recognize your ugly face..
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