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To: Orangedog
Great. Be sure to post when you decide to sack-up and go to the front line in Ukraine to save the free world.

I don't understand the weird, juvenile schoolyard taunts. Do you go after Mafia kingpins or fight wildfires on a volunteer basis? That's why we pay taxes, so that people we employ with those taxes perform their specified duties. As citizens and the military's paymasters, we collectively decide what those duties ought to be, and this debate is all about what they ought to be doing.

The issue isn't whether you should sign up with Putin's invaders or I should sign up with Ukraine's patriots - it's whether Russian territorial ambitions should be stopped here or much later on, when the costs will be much higher. The lesson of Munich is tumors should be excised before they metastasize.

149 posted on 04/15/2014 12:35:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Problem is...most don’t see where a direct confrontation with Russia doesn’t eventually involve nukes....whether we act now, or later.


153 posted on 04/15/2014 12:43:30 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Zhang Fei

Don’t expect that you are conversing with people who have the perspective of history and comprehend the concepts of coercive force and appeasement.

You are dealing with mostly the Alex Jones crowd here who thought the Boston police and federal authorities were much too strong-handed in tracking down some terrorists...

But at the same time think Russia’s land-grab into Crimea and now the follow up operation to have a logistical bridge through Eastern Ukraine is just peachy.

There is some serious useful idiot isolationism and hypocrisy going on here.


154 posted on 04/15/2014 12:44:34 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: Zhang Fei

Fine. Go poke the bear. No crying from you when radioactive gravel from NYC is raining down on Pennsylvania.


218 posted on 04/15/2014 4:32:04 PM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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