I love how predictable you are. If someone doesn't take your "wisdom" as gospel then obviously they must liten to fox news. (Im actually surprised you didn't refer to it as faux news) try reading the art of war, the prince, von clauswitz, any of the great millitary thinkers. The same theme runs through all thier writings.
Or better yet look at what happened in WW2, The firebombing of dresden, the blitz, the constant bombing raids on london. Both sides recognised this central concept. Both put it to practise, only we did it better. Thats why we won.
If the morale of the people can not be sustained the war itself can not be sustained.
But hey don't let a little thing like reality bother you, it doesn't seem to have ever intruded upon your thoughts before.
And yet, that has nothing to do with what photo was talking about at all.
I love how predictable you are. If someone doesn't take your "wisdom" as gospel then obviously they must liten to fox news. (Im actually surprised you didn't refer to it as faux news) try reading the art of war, the prince, von clauswitz, any of the great millitary thinkers. The same theme runs through all thier writings.
Or better yet look at what happened in WW2, The firebombing of dresden, the blitz, the constant bombing raids on london. Both sides recognised this central concept. Both put it to practise, only we did it better. Thats why we won.
If the morale of the people can not be sustained the war itself can not be sustained.
But hey don't let a little thing like reality bother you, it doesn't seem to have ever intruded upon your thoughts before.
HAHAHA....i literally laughed out loud!
you're calling ME predictable, and you're the conservative that's schooling me on "the art of war"?!
that's rich man.
seriously, though...you are a walking cliche. the conservative who is well versed in history and war strategies.
it's like you guys have it so ingrained in your head that the solution to any type of conflict is war. instead of reading books on battle techniques, why not be a little progressive?
instead of thinking about how we won world war II, you should be thinking about how it could have been avoided. same with this current war.
you're all the same. keep drinking that kool-aid.![]()
Im sure you did.
It doesn't speak well of you.
I don't believe the solution to every conflict is war, however Im also not dumb enough to beleive its never the solution.
And somehow I don't feel bad trusting the wisdom of a 5000 year old book that been in near continuos print the entire time over some wannabe wiseman on a message baord.
BTW we could have easily avoided WW2, as long as we were willing to allow japan to rape asia, the germans to slaughter the jews, and the cripples, and the gays, and the gypsies.
Other than that they weren't all bad thoguh right?
Im sure you think Pol Pot was a nice guy too, just misunderstood right?
There are times war is necessary, there are times its an option, and there are times when you have no other choice than to bow, or stand.
Guys like you like to bow, I prefer to stand.
And uh I find it even more telling that you think being versed in history is a negative. All though it does explain how you can support many of your positions.
I prefer to turn my back and continue to live my life. I don't fight for anyone or anything.
And so I respond with a passage from one of my favorite books, "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo.I find that undescribably sad.
I don't mean that as an insult, I really do.
Personally I belive that as a truly wise man once said "A man who has never found anything he will die for, doesn't have anything to live for"
I would also point out, that as one of our greatest and most colorful generals said " The point of war isn't to die for your country, its to make the other poor dumb bastard die for his"
Are you done? Or will there be another spiel of jingoism
Are you done? Or will there be another spiel of jingoism
And that was lucky for you. Most of the places in this world you could have been born would have made you face that choice in life, not just in thought. Many of the places in the world you could have been born would have taught you, first hand, just how ignorant you are.It had nothing to do with luck. It's just that this country was where my mother was when I popped out of her ****
And that was lucky for you. Most of the places in this world you could have been born would have made you face that choice in life, not just in thought. Many of the places in the world you could have been born would have taught you, first hand, just how ignorant you are.
MMMMMM! Terroristy!![]()
i can think of at least 10 countries i'd have rather been born in than this one.
And I can think of at least 100 you wouldn't have been.
The rest of the world aint a very nice place. Never has been. Most of its a sad, brutal, barbaric, murderous place.
I've wacthed boys and girls sold in slave markets for less than I spend on a pack of ciggarettes. I've seen tenagers who were intentionally criplled so they could make more money begging for thier masters. I've seen woemn who were raped because thier husbands protested the government, and children left without parents becasue they had the audacity to ask for more than thier ration of milk. I've met members of tribes that no longer exist becasue they were the wrong color, or religon, or beacuse someone got bored. I've met children who were drafted at the age of 8, and men who have watched thier wives killed because they made a joke.
You can say whatever you want about this nation, thats a right men better than me have died to protect, and you can complain all you want about the politics of the moment, or the idiocy of our leaders. The fact is we have it better than 75% or more of the wolrds population. Here we argue about whether abortion should be legal to those who want it, try living in a country where you get one whether you want it or not. Here we ***** that our vote doesn't matter, try travelling to a place where you're told who to vote for, and executed if you don't. We complain that people don't make a living wage, try being a man who works because he will be killed if he don't. In this country we argue about whether or not gays should be allowed to marry, try living where homosexuality is a capital offense. We complain about women being opressed, true opression is when a womans husband owns her as he does his cattle, and values her even less.
Thats why I cant stand it when people who are as spoiled and as god damned lucky as we are ***** and moan incessatnly about every little inequity, I've seen real inequity, and it doesn't exist in America.
None of you who grew up here has ever faced true opression, you've never been truly hungry, even our homelss don't know what its like to be truly poor. You've never hidden in a hole hoping the rape squads would ride by, or begged for your grandmothers life as 13 year old kids who have been irrevocably twisted by men more evil than you can comprehend have tortured and killed her. You never had to wacth you neighborhood bruned to the ground as the men were killed, the women raped and killd, and the children forcibly drafted into the same force that left them orphans.
You are lucky that you have the luxury to call this jingoism, that you have the freedom and the safety to dismiss what I'm saying. And I hope to god you will never know just how lucky you really are.
1. canada
2. united kingdom
3. france
4. japan
5. australia
6. new zealand
7. germany
8. switzerland
9. sweden
10. iceland
do you want more?
Its pretty sad how far you missed the point by.
And how ignorant you are even of the countries you mention.
In japan for example there is no "innocent untill proven guilty", its actually guilty untill proven innocent. Less than 10% of those charged ever are.
France has a similar system, no jury trials, just a panel of judges, and a presumption of guilt.
Germany, Sweden, and iceland all have total tax liabilities in excess of 75 cents on the dollar.
Germany aint too bad, unless you want to be able to get a job, or defend yourself from thugs. Same with the UK. Not to mention more cameras per sqaure mile than anywhere int he world, a police force that can lock you up for 30 (or is it 60 now) days without a trial, or access to a lawyer on the suspicion that you engaged in terrorist activities, or abetted them.
Im done here jones, you have no idea what you're talking about, and don't even have the sense to try and find out. You can keep thinking there are utopias somewhere out there, or that theres a nation that is truly better than ours. But there isn't. Some are about the same, most are much much worse. Some have different phiolosophies you may think are better,but I doubt if you lived there you'd agree. Like I said before, I just hope you never have to find out just how truly ignorant you are. Somehow I don't think you have the strength to survive it if you did.
I like how mwm1331 always tries to sound worldy.
I specifically liked this:
"You've never hidden in a hole hoping the rape squads would ride by, or begged for your grandmothers life as 13 year old kids who have been irrevocably twisted by men more evil than you can comprehend have tortured and killed her"
I'm guessing he has.
and I also love how when he is unable to badger someone into agreeing with him he is always done with people.
like the Queen of England or something.
"away with ye!"
again. I can sput random facts about countires doesn't mean that the quality of life in those countries is Bellow the US.
infact, last I checked ,the US isn't even #1 when it comes to quality of life in the world anymore.
so.
yeah.
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I like how mwm1331 always tries to sound worldy.
I specifically liked this:
"You've never hidden in a hole hoping the rape squads would ride by, or begged for your grandmothers life as 13 year old kids who have been irrevocably twisted by men more evil than you can comprehend have tortured and killed her"
I'm guessing he has.
and I also love how when he is unable to badger someone into agreeing with him he is always done with people.
like the Queen of England or something.
"away with ye!"
again. I can sput random facts about countires doesn't mean that the quality of life in those countries is Bellow the US.
infact, last I checked ,the US isn't even #1 when it comes to quality of life in the world anymore.
so.
yeah.
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