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Posted by richrobinson 10 years, 9 months ago to News
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That was very good. One good turn deserves another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeH8s_RA...
I hope you like this one.
O.A.
I've never seen that movie, but I just did a search on it and it has a pretty good soundtrack. How was the movie? I noted Michael O'Keefe was Hugh Akston in AS1 and stars in "The Sluggers Wife."
O.A.
I don't think that any of these politicians would be so strategic nor allow the benefit to the nation overrule their own political benefit (and definitely not the current crop). However, the greenies might just have done us a favor that they never intended. We just might end up in a situation where we do have the energy resources when others are running out. By then, we'll probably have other sources developed.
This is the case. I worked in the oilfields of the Anadarko region over three decades ago for a short while and I was told by several "big wigs" in the business, that for strategic reasons many wells would be held in reserve to insure that if need be we would not be without fuel for military purposes.
Regards,
O.A.
I agree. History is a great teacher. The lessons of Japan, Germany, South Korea... how different they were handled and how different they turned out...
Regards,
O.A.
We probably could have reduced our force structure in Japan in the early '70's, and Germany in the early '90's. South Korea still needs our presence, as does the ME. And if we stationed an armored brigade with a Patriot battery in Israel, that might give other Arab nations some pause.
Ah, if only I were SecDef.
Borg: Complete assimilation (this was the US model in the early 20th century).
Tribble: Overwhelm by infiltration (this has been used during the later 20th century by Muslims in Europe, and now by central/south Am's to the US)
Kahn: Frontal Attack.
Once one culture encounters another, there will be interaction and interference. Just my humble opinion.
Should you refrain from building your Wal-mart across the street from Mom & Pop's General Store, simply because of the negative impact your "more civilized" culture will have on their "more primitive" culture? No, of course not.
If you rephrase the Prime Directive to "no well-intentioned interference"... ie, you can interfere if you wish to do so to benefit yourself or your own society, but not to "help" the more primitive society.
if the early U.S. had adopted the Prime Directive, we'd still be huddled on the Atlantic coast, and the most advanced technology might be steam power. Maybe.
Jefferson was right. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Much like all rehab's Alcoholics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, those programs are not there for people who need them. They are there for people who (W A N T!!) them. So is freedom and Representative republic as we have. You can need it all you want, but until you WANT it badly enough to take action yourself, You are merely paying lip service.
Is that why the Confederate War failed to gain freedom for black slaves?
The world does not or it would have it.
"Welcome to Build-a-Burger, may I take your order?"
Get the hell out of there.
Maybe keep a low profile intelligence network and a handful of assassins to do a little weeding but get everybody else the hell out of there.
They will never be our friends. They will always want to kill us no what we give them or do for them.
Just get the hell out and let them kill each other.
American military have been killed. A bloodbath at this point is mandatory.
American humiliation and blood is what he requires for his agenda.
He spent his formative years in an Islamic country... that's where his reflexive loyalties lie.
American military have been killed. A bloodbath at this point is mandatory.
Pull all Americans out of Afghanistan and iraq.
Send one of the American Ebola patients to Iraq, the other to Afghanistan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZ6eaL3...
Of course, that requires you to remember that we're Americans and F* THEM...
I mean, we're Americans and they're not.
if your wife or child were horribly murdered, would you want to run away, or kill the m-f who did it? Well, these are our countrymen. OURS. Our fathers, sons, brothers and sadly, daughters.
War is not a civilized pursuit, and war with barbarians is never civilized.
The platitude is ancient: "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum."
If you would have peace, be thou then prepared for war.
If you would have peace, make an example of a belligerant.
So to hell with those ignorant among you who advocate running away from a fight. Ball-less Bush chose nation-building and pretending Afghanistan is a 21st century version of Italy circa 1943. Soul-less Obama chooses emasculation of America and destruction of our carefully wrought empire, and along with it, safety, prosperity, and freedom for the world.
Conquest is now the only answer. Take Afghanistan and hold it. And kill anybody who gets in the way. Now that we've lost Iraq, it'll be a harder, costlier fight. Don't blame me; look in the God-blessed mirror. The American body count would be high because of all you Americans who want to feel good and benevolent and morally superior to our enemies, rather than eliminating them.
If we don't conquer the middle east, the American experiment is over. Orwell's boot will be mashing the human face forever, and that boot will shod a Moslem foot. Or a communist foot. Which it will be won't be our concern any longer, it'll be between the two of them.
God, it makes me so mad. I tried to tell you people a decade ago... nobody listened then, nobody will listen now. I'll go on being Cassandra, always right, always ignored.
Rational is going to lose the war.
When will people get it? We are not fighting MIT professors. We are not fighting marine biologists. We are fighting MEN. Undomesticated homo sapiens. Reason and rationality will not work with them, any more than it would work with our ancestors of 10 thousand years ago.
The 'rational' response, that is, the response appropriate to homo sapiens based upon our 200,000+ year evolutionary conditioning, is a bloodbath; a frenzied, terrifying destruction of all life in a very messy fashion. That gets the message across.
You want to tell a three year old to stay out of the cookie jar, you do not reason with him. You tell him no, and when he tries it you swat his ass.
Because a three year old is still a primitive, uncivilized homo sapiens.
Likewise, you want to teach these people not to harm Americans, you make them suffer in the extreme for having done so. The swat on the ass, the carpet bombing of the region, they get the message across where high falutin' grad school language won't.
We destroyed Dresden in a night. The firebombing of Tokyo did far more destruction than did both atomic bombs. It doesn't take "more advanced weaponry" than thousands of gallons of napalm.
I'm not coming at this from a blood lust point of view; I'm not wanting to inflict suffering to satiate some mindless need for an eye for an eye.
I know, in your people's world, women are equal and the initiation of force is insane, and blah blah blah. Check your premise. We're dealing with the naked apes of Earth, not carefully cultivated middle-class American IQs. And I don't mean that as a pejorative against Moslems or Afghans, but as a description of us as we really are, stripped of our intellectual sophistry.