blackshoe Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 The question then becomes, then who keeps the world safe from us? Ron Paul <g, d, & r> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloa513 Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 Considering the U.S. has no single enemy anywhere close to the threat of the old U.S.S.R., this chart appears ludicrous: http://cdn1.globalissues.org/i/military/11/country-distribution-2010.pngNo its much worse than having the USSR which was a moderately well defined threat- they have lots of threats- China, Russia, many unfriendly countries, irregular enemies (terrorists)- however the spending is a mess e.g. its equally split between the three armed forces because otherwise the generals would squabble (kindergarten children that they are)- does this budget include intelligence which is equally a mess with more squabbling disorganised branches than you can count on two hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 To me, the world seems largely out of control. We read that Iran is having economic problems. So they will drop their nuclear program in return for dropping sanctions??? Not likely. North Korea has been an economic basket case since it was created and it has not stopped them from getting nukes. What, really, are we to do? Beats me. I am hearing that Al-Assad belongs to some Islamic sect I never heard of, and others of that sect hope he can stay in power because otherwise they expect some other variant of Islam to kill them. We should try to help who do what? I'm sure that if I were a Christian in Egypt I would be taking the next flight out to anywhere. Probably we non-believers are not really welcome there either. I sometimes come to pretty simple minded conclusions. The difference between me and some others is that I realize my ideas are simple minded. Eg: Put in severe oil and gas rationing as was done in WWII, pull entirely out of the Middle East, and tell them to have a good time killing each other just leave us out of it. Crazy I know, but then Reagan did something along those lines during the Iraq-Iran war. I always figured he consulted is advisers: "We have Iraqis killing Iranians and Iranians killing Iraqis. Remind me why it is our job to try to stop this." All evidence to the contrary, I really do not think that most Americans are eager to bomb anyone. Somehow we have gotten into this mess. Getting out butts out of the Middle East would help a lot, but realistically speaking, can it be done? If you think I don't know what I am talking about, yeah that's right. Others do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 A couple of interesting comments from Fox News (yeah, I know): "The US seems bent on making enemies everywhere" (a guy named Sheurer (sp?), former head of the CIA's Osama Bin Ladin unit, in an endorsement of Ron Paul, and "The Israelis say they're perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. Why shouldn't we believe them?" (Same guy, I think, but I could be wrong). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 (Getting out butts out of the Middle East would help a lot, but realistically speaking, can it be done?) Ideology in a small population of influence can certainly create a climate that allows an insidious creep of responses that are in concert with the tenets of that ideology. To me, this is how the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex, which has become a cash-cow merry-go-round, evolved. It is a difficult fix for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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