Posted on 03/04/2022 10:07:06 AM PST by Conservat1
He right about that
Bkmk
Well said, and in any conflict, civilian casualties far outnumber the combatants.
The “War Crimes” laws and usage of them, has much in common with US laws. Both are enforced strongly against the losers. The winners get off without a side glance.
What Biden did to our people in Afghanistan was a war crime. If it is not one for leaving your own behind, it should be. Then again, those in command who left Korean, Vietnamese and Afghanistan vets behind were good at sweeping that dirt under the rug.
We saved the Affis, Middle Easterners and Vietnamese though, so we must be good. We even brought in a bunch of Somalians to boot. No South African whites though, because they can just take their “medicine”.
The unsettling part for me is that the “enemy” in the view of our government happens to be parents attending school board meetings right here in America. The same industries making JDAMS are just as busy crafting nasty weapons to use against we, the deplorable Walmart stinking people.
Only partially?
What is not correct about what was said?
Sad isn’t it?
Ideas aren’t right or wrong depending on who says then AOC is the new boogeyman?
He’s not wrong, but we have no choice. Only overwhelming military might keeps the U.S. dollar as the world’s unchallenged reserve currency. Other than that our empire is is rapid decline. It won’t last, but since we have sold off all of our manufacturing and supply industries, there is nothing else we can do.
He sounds like he has a point.
Of course they sell arms to make money.
Winchester makes arms to sell money. Remington sells arms to make money. Ruger makes arms to sell money. I buy from them.
We as Conservatives don’t have a problem if people purchase firearms here in the USA to protect themselves.
Sometimes those firearms get stolen and used in crimes. Sometimes the legal purchasers give them to others to commit crimes. Sometimes the legal purchasers use them to commit crimes themselves. Sometimes those people legally sell those firearms to other people who may commit crimes.
Same things happen in towns. In states. In countries. Internationally.
IMO, you either believe in the concept of people having weapons to protect themselves or you don’t.
If you don’t, then that goes all the way from your own household all the way up the the international stage, and all arms sales of any kind to anyone, including those manufactured for your own country, become illegal.
An arms ban.
If you do believe that people should have weapons to protect themselves, then you should be able to have a weapon in your home, your country can have weapons, and you assume other countries can have weapons for the same purpose.
Are there people out there who are not responsible enough to own weapons? Yes. Without question.
Are there countries out there who are not responsible enough to own weapons? Yes. Without question.
The question is how are weapons-responsible people or countries distinguished from weapons-irresponsible people or countries?
How do we define “responsible”? And who does the “distinguishing”? And if there are standards, how do you know you can sell arms to a “good guy” who won’t turn into a “bad guy” tomorrow, or have their arms stolen, purchased from them, or given away.
Should we sell arms to the UK? Sure. They are responsible.
How about Iceland? Or Australia? Should we be selling nuclear submarine technology to Australia? Sounds like we are going to.
How about Somalia? Should we sell them arms? Or Argentina? Or Iran? Or Cuba? Probably not.
The questions are: Should people/countries be allowed to acquire arms, yes or no? If the answer is no, that makes it simple: nobody can manufacture or sell arms even for self defense, because they might fall into the wrong hands, or those hands may change from good hands to bad hands.
If the answer is yes, then who decides? A Democrat administration? The EU? The Russian government? Or the Chicoms?
Better to be a Putinista than a Soros/Klaus Schaub clown.
If you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers.
The big picture—Big Pharma has had a great run looting government treasuries all over the world.
Now the military industrial complex wants their bite of the apple.
The key question to ask about any public policy question is:
Who benefits?
A stopped clock…..
It’s a feedback loop. We create a lot of our own problems. At least the elites do. Then deplorables have to go out and fight.
Ok, mostly true.
“Ukraine Is a Victim of America’s Greedy Policies;”
Except the Ukraine was already victimized by its own government which was totally corrupt before we got there. Only more so after Obama/Biden cashed in on said corruption.
“The U.S. Regime Is a Mafia that Creates Crises in Order to Increase the Profits from Weapons Industry”
The “Current fraudulently elected U.S. Regime” would be more correct. I believe a recent U.S. president was trying to correct that.
As you said, if you ask the wrong questions, you get the wrong answers.
I don’t think those are the wrong questions I asked at all.
We harnessed the power of industry in WWII (against the will of many in the Roosevelt Administration who did NOT want to do that) to fight “the good war”.
Did those industrialists benefit financially? Damn right they did. Does that make it wrong?
I don’t think so. Not a bit.
Not only that, we gave huge amounts of arms to other countries like the Soviet Union, who we regarded as “good guys” only because we were driven to it by necessity. Even before the war was over, they were transitioning shamelessly into “bad guys”. So we gave lots of arms in the “good war” to very bad people.
Well, they certainly do more of that bad “feedback loop” in administrations like these.
Funny how it most often happens under Democrat administrations. Like the Leftist Scumbag Dean Acheson telling the world that Korea wasn’t part of our defensive interests, and miraculously, only a short time later after the NORKS had time to prepare, they invaded South Korea.
Or the current Democrat Douchebag Biden identifying publicly that the West might not respond to a “minor border incursion”, and here we are today.
People on the Left think things like those two examples don’t matter.
But Conservatives understand all too well that beady-eyed, often stupid totalitarian thugs who may not have a lot going for them intellectually don’t have any problem at all spotting weakness in people or nations.
And exploiting it. As we see in Ukraine now.
Well, they certainly do more of that bad “feedback loop” in administrations like these.
Funny how it most often happens under Democrat administrations. Like the Leftist Scumbag Dean Acheson telling the world that Korea wasn’t part of our defensive interests, and miraculously, only a short time later after the NORKS had time to prepare, they invaded South Korea.
Or the current Democrat Douchebag Biden identifying publicly that the West might not respond to a “minor border incursion”, and here we are today.
People on the Left think things like those two examples don’t matter.
But Conservatives understand all too well that beady-eyed, often stupid totalitarian thugs who may not have a lot going for them intellectually don’t have any problem at all spotting weakness in people or nations.
And exploiting it. As we see in Ukraine now.
The Bushes certainly did their share.
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