Dave Head
But the point remains that we should not have stuck our nose in the middle of things in the first place. This fight was between China and Japan. We had no skin in the game; yet we chose sides anyway.
Hitler was a threat to our safety; and as such I am alright with us fighting him. Mussolini - he was just along for the ride with Hitler. Hirohito - if we did not sell arms to China then we would have had no fight with him. He only sided with Hitler because he had nowhere else to go for oil to fight China. He asked us for oil first. Hitler did not like him. In fact, they never met each other. Not even to sign the Axis alliance with each other.
We have to attack Korea and Iraq to not seem weak? The 7 aircraft carrier fleets, 10,000 aircraft, 12,500 nuclear weapons, or a standing army of 1.4 million seem weak to you? Nobody will f*** with us, no matter what we remain uninvolved with. We can be isolationist; and the world will still fear us. Also, we are not truly isolationist - we would still be having international commerce with everyone. They could not attack us - they would be f***ing up their own economy.
That is bullpoo, and is only YOUR opinion. Bin Laden has never acted to take over the world; nor has he said he wants to. He just wants Saudi Arabia to go back to fundamentalism and stop allowing the West to stand a military force within it's borders.
We f***ing trained him. What are you talking about? We created this enemy with our tax dollars. We trained him with CIA and military specialists. Then after we trained him, we placed him in Afghanestan to f*** with USSR. Then we f***ed Saddam in the butt. We fed Saddam arms and training for 15 years while he battled Iran. One afternoon we decided to make him a scapegoat so we could install a puppet government in an oil producing Muslim state. He had good reason to hate Kuwait. They were cross drilling and stealing his oil. Sure the guy was a scumbag of the worst kind; but it's not like he had a navy and wanted to take over North, Central, or South America.
2.60 a frickin gallon! 2136On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:06:46 -0400, "James C. Reeves" Just not so. Dems pushed hard for investing in new energy sources like E cars etc, but the...
2.60 a frickin gallon! 2137Then you didn't read Bushes energy policy that he published back in 2001. He had generious tax incentives for hydrogen and fuel cell...
Nobody will nuke us. No country will attack us at all. We are too powerful. We can mind our own business; and nobody would f*** with us. Bin Laden only f***ed with us because we are in Saudi Arabia and Israel. If we were not in those places; he would still be the ally we trained to f*** with USSR. And he is a man without a country. Just a rogue person.
You are not knowledgable on this subject apparently. Our GNP is greater than it ever was. We are bigger than the entire Europe Union. We produce more now than we ever did.
There will be a shortfall of Computer Scientists of over 350,000 people within our generation. We have more computer needs now than we ever did.
Nobody is asking them to build anything. We could build weapons as quickly as the Fed was willing to write the check. If USA let our US companies build weapons and sell them without federal constraints; these companies would be HUGE right now.
No country will ever attack our shores. We are too powerful.
