xiamiam
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:25 PM
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I think we are in more wars today than ever before in my six decade lifetime |
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Why? I thought it was bad when Poppy Bush invaded Iraq...but I never ever thought I'd see this. I thought we had discovered peace in my lifetime. I'm twisted into a ball of anger and frustration and sadness over this.
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:26 PM
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1. I am due beer and travel money. |
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Edited on Sun Jun-05-11 04:26 PM by RandomThoughts
And the world should be more just and compassionate.
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:27 PM
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2. Random, some days I am really really glad you are here because your posts give me the |
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only smile I can muster on some days.
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Sun Jun-05-11 06:11 PM
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:32 PM
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4. our government's wars are results of decisions made by specific humans who could decide otherwise nt |
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:28 PM
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3. They are called 'Operations' now not wars |
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:36 PM
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5. It seems like most of my lifetime this country has been at war, on the edge of war |
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or strategizing potential wars. They're big profits in wars for some and big profits in preparation/readiness, the MIC. I'm completely convinced there are quite a few people that want war for war's sake and the profits.
The older I get the more I realize most of earth is really F'ed up in regard to humans.
I agree, anymore, it's become our chief national product.
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:38 PM
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6. we are the most agressive and other country occupying country on the planet..nt |
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Sun Jun-05-11 11:02 PM
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13. I really don't care for our foreign policy and meddling in other countries. Often |
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I think we create more problems than might have existed without our meddling in their affairs. And it's done to promote American Imperialism IMO.
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:52 PM
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7. HEY, THEY'RE NOT WARS, we've not declared war on but |
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perhaps one. They're just police actions. How gawd awful that somehow we've determined ourselves to be the police of the world when we have such a corrupt, over-populated, and under-served (re: recidivism), becoming mostly privatized gladiator arenas prison and judicial system.
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:57 PM
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8. We are in the dangerous end stages of agressive Imperialism, much like the end of the Roman Republic |
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Edited on Sun Jun-05-11 04:58 PM by Odin2005
The end result is what British Historian A. J. Toynbee called a "universal empire" that encompasses an entire civilization and is ruled by a fused commercial-military ruling class. This is the end state of a civilization, a universal empire is a kind of death shroud or coffin of a civilization that has lost all innate vitality.
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Sun Jun-05-11 05:09 PM
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10. Yep, more and more I think this is right on. Some of my friends have called the |
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US a bully nation with respect to foreign policy and IMO there's a lot of truth in that. I often wish we would divert some of that time, money and energy into fixing our own problems here at home.
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Sun Jun-05-11 04:58 PM
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9. Indeed. And how many countries are we going to 'liberate' before it becomes |
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Sun Jun-05-11 06:09 PM
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11. Korea, VN, Iraq I, Iraq II, Afghanistan |
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During my life time, my country has been at war--
Korea- 3yrs VietNam-20yrs Iraq I-1yr Iraq II-8yrs+ Afghanistan-10yrs+
42 years---pathetic, over a third of my lifetime
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Sun Jun-05-11 11:06 PM
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15. For me the same, but starting with WWII. I find it pathetic too. n/t |
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Sun Jun-05-11 11:05 PM
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14. I think there are more wars *reported* these days than in your 6 decade |
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lifetime.
The US has a long history of imperialism; it does not have a long history of reporting same.
Smedley Butler tried to tell 'us.' This has been a long love-affair with militaristic imperialists; now the internet lets us report and learn of it.
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Mon Jun-06-11 12:01 AM
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16. War has become privatized, and is now basically a business |
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Now that there's a serious profit motive for war, there's more of them.
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Mon Jun-06-11 12:24 AM
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17. Trick question often asked during history dissertations: |
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How many years has the U.S.A. been at peace during its history?
Answer: Zero
We have always been at war, if not with the British, French, Indians, Spanish, Phillipino, Germans, Chinese; then ourselves.
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Mon Jun-06-11 12:31 AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operationsI was going to put a rough guess about how many wars there are in that list, but just counting them would be a formidable task!
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