Posted on 02/14/2003 4:27:31 PM PST by vannrox
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Russia delivered the latest batch of advanced SU-30MKK fighter bombers to China within the past month and additional jets are on the way, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
Russia's arms exports used to be public. But under pressure from Beijing, Moscow agreed to keep secret its major weapons systems transfers to China.
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And unlike you, I have seen that money squandered and stolen while millions still starve. Some people equate spending money with solving problems. I don't. We have created an appetite that can never be satisfied.
Well, sin is universal, but no freaking way this happens.
If that were the case, they would have incentive to attack us now instead, and attempt that before destroying themselves.
I understand that some things are really out of our reach, including keeping China or Russia from reaping what they've spent 50-70 years trying to sow.
Sure our prayers have only defeated the Nazies, Imperial Japan and put some sort of order in Europe and South East Asia, that is quite an underachievement for some in terms of stabilizing force.
Thank you for insulting the memory of the people who *FOUGHT* and *DIED* so that feather merchants like you can steal their valor.
Indeed, money is a contract between people and it goes directly to people, not to digging ditches. The digging ditches is what people do. Hence the communists' belief that we solely owe debts to each other as humans, and not to God nor to government. However that does not work. The system has and will always be: people, God and government.
Guess again. Beijing's control over its military in the hinterland is rather more nominal than actual. Part of Russia will follow the next man on horseback. The other part won't.
If that were the case, they would have incentive to attack us now instead, and attempt that before destroying themselves.
You manage to assume that no one in the outside world can be petty, self-seeking, vindictive against his fellows, and generally just as sinful as any other man.
No, you are insulting me. I pray to God, for America and its soldiers, you gotta problem with this? I know where my debts lay, while you deny America and its fallen's legacy as a stabilization force. You are thee insult.
I guess you ignore completely the technique of ascribing of sins onto others ... well, would you look at yourself?
I have a problem with you asserting that your prayers are what won the day, not the valor of our soldiers.
I know where my debts lay, while you deny America and its fallen's legacy as a stabilization force.
I don't deny it, shiite-head.
I merely point out that there are limits on what we Americans can do.
And I notice how loudly you scream for others' blood to be shed for your fantasies--and how you don't bother shedding any of your own.
You are thee insult.
I spent eight years of my life guarding your freedom.
I would prefer a simple "thank you."
If you can't spare that, then grab a rifle and stand post.
But kindly do not lecture me on your heroism and valor.
Oh, I am FULLY aware of my sinfulness.
You, on the other hand...well, if ignorance is bliss, you're in freakin' Nirvana.
Are you denying that the generosity and benevolence of the United States which is unequaled in the history of the world, has ever helped people around the world?
If so, you are incorrect...and you are also changing your argument from "it's not our job", to "it doesn't do any good". Both of which are wrong in the views of most American throughout our history.
They aren't GETTING decent squadrons.
US pilots get more flight time in a month than ChiCom pilots get in two years.
Taiwan and North Korea are the biggest hotspots with the most potential for armed conflict on a large scale. It has more to do that with just China.
What am I talking about? My exact point about yourself.
You are the one caring so much for me in Nirvana. Seems you know the place better as you have only been insulting me and personaly attacking for, oh, the past 10 posts or more. You obviously have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. As far as I am concerned you simply confine my location in "freakin' Nirvana", you paint, not my own house, but me in colors I do not reflect, and you expect no checks against you but only encouragement while you are doing it.
The necrosis of your ability to think gives you little credence, in fact, me, right or wrong, it disgusts and frightens people.
I don't know, either I am phobic or you share the chinese communists' necrophilia obviously.
So like your prayers are much better? Hypocrite.
So like your (prayers)(Cross that) necrotic rantings are much better? Hypocrite.
At least my prayers appeal to a worthy mediation and hence a superiority for those soldiers. Your rantings and insults on the other hand deny any sort of care. And you should be worried about a nation that stops praying. If you think prayer is no good, then go live in countries where they think it is no good, and we will see if prayer has no effect. So go to communist China, and stop coming here where prayer is humbly credited.
Thank you for a very good laugh.
I believe it has helped dictators buy weapons. We have spent hundreds of billions on aid programs and we still have famine in the places we spent the money. If we really cared about the starving people, we would fix the problem rather than simply throwing money at it and hoping it goes away.
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