Posted on 03/18/2014 11:16:19 AM PDT by opentalk
Former Rep. Ron Paul says that Americas reaction to Crimeas vote to secede from Ukraine should be,so what?
Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away? the Texas Republican and libertarian icon wrote in a USA Today op-ed Monday.
...Over the weekend, Crimeans voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia,which the Russian government has moved to approve. American politicians have called the vote a sham and the administration has said it does not recognize the results of the vote,placing sanctions on some Russian officials in response.
Ron Paul said at least three other regions, Catalonia, Scotland and Venice,are similarly seeking to leave their countries, and the U.S. and Europe should allow events to proceed uninterrupted there as well as Crimea, saying self-determination is a centerpiece of international law.
Paul said the minimal sanctions from the White House is all the global economy can afford, and it is the global economy that promotes peace,not intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Calm down, hysteric.
Lies and left-wing propaganda about “U.S. war crimes” don’t cut it on this web site, amigo. But don’t listen to me — just shake up the proprietor and slap him around a bit on “America’s grisly crimes against humanity”. That’ll last all of four seconds.
Never said that. That comes out of your bitter imagination.
In context I said if you want to use military power to affect change you need to wield it like it was wielded in WWII - total war, keep pounding until the enemy submits utterly.
We utterly destroyed Japan and Germany and killed as many Japanese and Germans as we possibly could by every means we had and any means we could invent.
Your meaning is blazingly clear -- and a lie. I called you on it. Resign the argument now, and save yourself some embarrassment.
Ok, I’ll be glad to.
Can’t promise it will a constant flow, but when I have free time, I’ll do it.
I stand by everything I said.
If you plan on compiling a "ping list," please put me on it.
Me three.
What you said was false.
The United States, contrary your malicious, tantrum-throwing accusation worthy of a Communist agitprop werewolf at a kindergarten-teachers' convention, did not engage in mass genocide against Germany and Japan. They/we absolutely did no such thing.
Soldier-to-soldier, the Pacific War was very tough ..... because the Japanese insisted on playing things that way, from beheading captive airmen with their showoff katanas to raping nurses captured in the Philippines until they were pregnant and then tying their thighs together when their time came, so that they died in horrible agony along with their bastard half-Japanese children. Soldier-to-soldier, our men and our Marines made the Japanese soldiers and officers pay for that stuff -- and we had to wait for the war-crimes tribunals to get justice on the prime movers, Tojo and Yamashita and the rest.
But premeditated genocide? You lie.
What are you, a KGB plant?
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