Posted on 01/10/2005 11:57:31 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Furthermore, it is not the business of our military to provide aid and comfort to tsunami victims (or spread democracy in the Middle East, for that matter). Let's bring our soldiers back home and put them back to work defending our country. Bring on the flames!
When it comes to taxpayer money, sometimes, it's just not ours to give...
isolationist?
How about spreading democracy? Is that the military's job?
I agree with the first part but disagree with the second part.
Specifically I think that at the very least it's excellent practical experience for our military folks to aid in situations like this.
You can train all you want but nothing trumps real life experience.
California, Florida and Oklahoma?
No.
Not at all.
Now that they have their hands out in Indonesia are they still chanting 'Death to America' as they were in Jakarta after 9/11?
So you would rather fight them here? Not too damn smart if you ask me.
Charity Begin Abroad Every day, in every way, The Diplomad gets better and better. Could it be that it employs a very simple technique? The truth. In Jakarta, aside from flags at half-staff, we have seen no signs of mourning for the victims: while employees and dependents of the American embassy spent their holiday loading trucks and putting together medicine kits, the city's inhabitants went ahead with New Year's parties; nightclubs and shopping centers are full; and regular television programming continues. At least 120,000 of their fellow countrymen are dead, and Indonesians hardly talk about it, much less engage in massive charitable efforts. The exceptionally wealthy businessmen of the capital -- and the country boasts several billionaires -- haven't made large donations to the cause of Sumatran relief; a few scattered NGOs have done a bit, but there are no well-organized drives to raise funds and supplies. We have seen nothing akin to what happened in the USA following the 9/11 atrocity, or the hurricanes in Florida of this past year.
The Sri Lankan's words echo in my mind every day, ""Why do we want to bother with this? We all know you Americans will do everything." With the exception of handful of Western countries, most of the world would appear inhabited by the sort of Eloi-type creatures depicted in that old sci-fi flick based on H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, passively watching as flood waters or Morlocks drag their fellows away.
Begging the pardon of the cultural relativists, but might we not be allowed to raise -- ever so gently, of course -- the possibility that these differing reactions to human suffering, show Western civilization as the best we have on the planet? Maybe, just maybe Western civilization is morally superior.
Off the deep end.
Fighting them over there is not going to stop the ones already over here if they are determined to do something. Besides, we weren't fighting terrorists in Iraq until after we invaded Iraq. Next argument...
Well we are sending a message. We will not be a Paper Tiger.
AFGHANISTAN... Can you say that?
Now Iraq.
Then Iran.
Then Syria.
Then imprison some terrorist plotting thugs here in the U.S.
Then eventually North Korea for fun.
As far as I'm concerned, Western Society, with its relative freedom and comforts, is far superior to 7th-Century-style Islamist culture...
Mohammed Atta. Your turn.
Are you for a draft to ensure that you get all the Centurions you need for that tall order?
Clever. Invoke 9-11. That's not why we went to Iraq. We went due to fear of WMD, which proved to be mostly non-existent. Then it was said we're spreading democracy. An admirable goal, but it renders us less able to face real threats, such as China.
Can we agree on one thing? If we really went into Iraq just to spread democracy, can we agree to fire the neocons whose wet dream that is?
No drafted needed.
The US and Israel will nuke Iran.
The US alone will scatter many bombs across Syria.
And well concerning North Korea; the US and Japan combined should Nuke them at any moment just posturing and scarying me during the '90s.
I guess your post was your own w*t dream.
It hasn't taken off the ground. Post smaller ideas.
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