What wars would you stay out of?

Jim Powell

[martin_fierro]

[Skooz]

25 years ago, I stayed away from a friend's younger brother who wanted to play PanzerBlitz because I was afraid the little stinker would beat me and My friend would never let me live it down.

I avoided that war.

[day10]

[cripplecreek]

That mars/ saturn thing seems a little beyond our capabilities. I say let them hammer it out on their own.

[Coop]

You seem to have a one-track mind, Jim. I'll save my comments for someone a bit more open-minded.

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[AntiGuv]

A side-benefit of going to war with China would be that we could cancel the hundreds of billions that we owe them (so long as we win). We'd be afflicted with their whining about that for centuries though....

[pissant]

I'd avoid the kids neighborhood bottle rocket wars if you don't own a good pair of protective goggles. Other than that, can't think of any...

[CougarGA7]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

[stuartcr]

What if we cancelled the debt, and then everyone else decided to go to war against us so they wouldn't have to repay their debts? Or if no one loaned us anymore money?

[Sloth]

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[NRA1995]

We have some lovely parting gifts for you; thank you for playing "ZOT!"

[rdb3]

Solicitation.

[AntiGuv]

They can't stop loaning us money because that's ultimately how we buy their exports, and they have no one else to export to if we have no money. When the house of cards finally implodes we're all going down together...

[mike182d]

How do you determine which wars we can win and which wars are likely to backfire on us?

If a man's wife is being attacked by an armed guman, does he calculate the cost, or the probability of success in fighting against him?

We are slowly becoming a utilitarian society void of all virtue and honor at the hands of spineless Dems.

[Logic n' Reason]

Better to ask, "what wars would you agree to engage in personally, or send your only son to fight in?"

I think the answers would be more telling if they were honest.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I would venture to say the only war in the history of the US not worth fighting was the Spanish-American War. A lot of people might put Vietnam in that catergory, however, Vietnam was not a fight against even North Vietnam. It was one of the battlefields in the Cold War.
To ask which war we would stay out of, none of those countries listed had every last diplomatic angle tried, like Iraq had.

[Condor51]

I'm not going to plat this TROLL's game, but you made an interesting comment, to wit:

"I would venture to say the only war in the history of the US not worth fighting was the Spanish-American War..."

Not many people are aware of this, but we are still paying today a Telephone Luxury Tax that was instituted in 1898 to help fund that war.

Over the years there's been many efforts to repeal it, but it always keeps getting 'renewed'. So here we are in 2005, still PAYING a tax to fund a war from 1898.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Yeah, I'd heard we were still paying some tax meant to pay for the Spanish- American War.

[AntiGuv]

The Spanish-American War Telephone Tax.