Journal fustakrakich's Journal: Despite Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, etc and all the lies 18
We still have so many people clamoring for war under virtually the exact same pretexts. How fucked can this be? I fully expect a carpet bombing of negative points on this one. We got some real sickos out there...
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just kick back and enjoy Endless War.
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I always thought the War Powers Act was an unnecessary distraction. We didn't go into Vietnam, or any other war without full congressional approval. In fact we can lay a bunch of this on Wilson also, but in reality, American (European) aggression goes all the way back to the beginning. A peaceful nation it is not.
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The hard part is not pointing out the suckage here. Rather, tell me what real-world alternative you'd espouse. Non-Interventionism sounds all spiffy, but what makes you think it would actually, you know, work?
I'm contending that there isn't much stable operating area between driving the menu, and being on the menu. Fee
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Prior to that (and I'd call TR's Great White Fleet a foreshadowing) the U.S. did not maintain significant forces inter bello.
They weren't finished steam rolling over this hemisphere until then. If you were to look at this from off the planet, you would see it as one type of bacteria devouring another in the petri dish. It is normal behavior, even for man is this primitive stage of his evolution. What is needed now is the widespread realization that we are in a post scarcity world now. The rules have to be t
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Wow, that's some hyperbole. Do remember that, until the Progressives came along and wanted to make everything better for everyone, the Monroe Doctrine really did obtain.
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Obtain what? And since when were the Indian massacres 'hyperbole'?
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Indian massacres sucked, but they helped get Andrew Jackson to power, so that we could have Democrats. Perhaps you can rejoice in that.
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I'm talking about government policy, without concern whether it's foreign or domestic. Besides, Indian land was foreign territory, before occupation. And rejoicing with/for the democrats? Please!! More proof you got me all wrong. They're more deviant than the republican faction, quarreling lovers, but still with the same goal in mind.
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I have a +3 Ring of 'Screw These Appeals To Guilt', which I wear constantly.
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Today's events ,wars, etc. are but a continuation of those historical wrongs. Nothing has changed, but your conditioning has convinced you otherwise, and it is impossible to argue with indoctrination. If not for the imposition on others, it wouldn't be necessary to combat it, or even discuss it.
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You make my point beautifully.
If you want to grow up, you need to put these wrongs in rational context. FORGIVE. Or, you can turn the past into a prison, and use it to derive political power and control others, QED in the news.
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Close, but, you're still not getting it. Though you almost did in another thread also. What you're describing here is one rationalization of many to continue our coercive ways. "Might makes right" is still the MO of our biological nature. That has not changed one iota. It is the base of your (all) authority. The past is still the foundation of the present, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The past
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For your follow-up assignment, explain how we can develop a political system with enough feedback loops to drive toward some stable society.
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We are already stable (or can be on a moment's notice), naturally so, like a well designed airplane, let go of the controls, and it will right itself no matter how unusual the attitude is. We are flourishing. 7 billion and growing. We totally dominate our environment. The strongest among us, since there is nothing to control them, live in the stereotypical anarchistic fashion, throwing bombs, robbing banks, and wantonly destroying property, pillaging far away lands, raping the women, the works. (Why should
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Whose?
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Hasn't happened yet. I've already laid out one prerequisite. I'm sure there are a few others, but it still won't happen without the basics.