It's a huge risk to us, it's genocidal, it's subhuman. I care, I give a shit. You want to complain about military spending? Do it any day of the week, when we are always spending many, many multiples of any other country in the world. Not on the one rare day when using that military benefits our safety and is, to boot, in the service of the most basic demands of human decency.
Cool. You pay for it then. And if you think this is a rare day, you should probably check the news. We've been engaged in military action in the Middle East for coming up on a decade and a half but you're entitled to your opinions as am I.
Bombing the Middle East and as a result being indebted/owned by China can't stop anyone from hijacking a plane who wants to, or getting hold of a gun and shooting someone in the name of religion inside our borders. It's a collosal waste of money and isn't close to protecting our country any more than we were a few days ago or 15 years ago. You want to be safe, erect the great wall of China around our borders and don't let anyone in. Let the rest of the world blow each other up. Not my problem and certainly not one I'm willing to pay for. But this isn't the place for this. It's a turk board for penny hits.
I don't disagree, at all. I'm wholly in favor of cutting baseline military spending, as I think my comment makes clear, and I'm hugely in favor of education (especially early) and infrastructure. Health care initiatives, as well. That does not mean that dropping bombs on a group that supports genocide, human degradation, and the murder of innocents, and seems likely to harbor more terrorists in the future, is a bad idea.
prevent violence through violence - huh? No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein
There's so much wrong with this. But the saddest thing to me is, "Let the rest of the world blow each other up." I really was pissed when I saw SOME people in SOME countries celebrating after 9/11. It seemed to me simply obvious that anyone should care about the slaughter of innocents. And it worries me that Americans think that that is a quaint notion, that human rights are somehow important.
We're [redacted] either way you look at it. And we don't have the correct solution, because if we did no-one would listen to us anyways. I guess if we don't like it, move, or take action against those that make the decisions. Good luck.
I have no idea what that quote means, but I do know that Einstein was an early proponent of developing nuke bombs before the Nazis did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein–Szilárd_letter Which sounds a whole lot like preventing violence through violence to me.
Dropping bombs never makes friends. Profit? What do you think? I am sure those "million Dollar" missiles/bombs do need to get used before they can be expected to be resupplied. Kill is good.
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/return?...Hj4hRiGCgHweoFY0=&externalHit=true&canAccept= not sure if these are worthwhile
You mean the Albert Einstein that signed a letter to FDR recommending atomic bomb research because he believed the Germans were initiating such a program? That Albert Einstein? You're saying you would have recommended everyone in the U.S. just chill? Hey man, it's cool, it's not your problem. I think you might not be understanding what he meant. (If he even said it, since I can find no source for this, whatsoever.)
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