Are you crazy, you know the infrastructure required for that effort? Do you have any idea how many good paying skilled jobs that will create??? Don't you want to stimulate the economy?
I'm sorry, if you are not for the stimulating of our economy, you must be a racist.
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There's nothing overtly wrong with opposing war and "outlandish military spending"; everyone's entitled to their own opinion. My personal contempt for the sort of people I described stems from the larger fact that they want to take the greatest country on earth, built brick by brick of mortar mixed with blood by patriots who believed in what this nation could be and should be, and reduce it to the same sort of stagnant, irrelevant, socialist mediocrity we find in rotting Europe. A bit of descriptive hyperbole, I suppose, but I refuse to go quietly into the night at the behest of people who, for whatever reason, find it powerfully disquieting that we actually are better as a nation than everybody else and want to punish our success instead of working to build everybody else up.
If this is true and the public is so vehemently against it, then there is a problem. I do have a problem with all of these European bases, and their actual worth to the strategic overview.
This again is a fossil mentality left over from the Cold War, and has little relevance now.
True, I would rather spend our resources here in the United States. If another country wants to get froggy, we could just drop a neutron bomb on them. That would save time and money. And there would be few others that would line up to get the same treatment. And with a neutron devise it only takes out living things, and leaves the infrastructure in tact. The area could then be occupied and developed. War would be inexpensive, rare, and only take the touch of a button.
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I call it a realistic assessment of some of my fellow citizens which has lead to a certain contemptable view of their aims, ideologies, and (in many cases) personal hygiene practices.
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I knew, I mean I absolutely KNEW, that you'd been listening to or reading Chalmers Johnson. I couldn't figure out why you suddenly in the last week or so began harping on this term "military Keynesianism", and then it clicked -- I bet one of your leftist blogs linked to a Chalmers Johnson article or essay.
Carry on.
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Dan, I am regretting my divisive rhetoric, but why do you find it necessary to place a whole category of people into a group and describe them as less important, not as good, lacking in virtue, and generally unemployed parasites because they oppose war and outlandish military spending?
That's awfully rich, coming from you. Does the phrase NeoCon and your many dismissive uses of it happen to cross the mind here? Truly a Liberal double standard with you.
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I know you and Dan are devout Christians, but how is that attitude Christian?
I wish you would show me somewhere in the Bible where the definition of "Christian" means accepting and approving of all behavior exhibited by all people, because that's the undercurrent I've gotten from the occasions where you approach your spiritual beliefs. I feel a burden for the unbelievers among us, and I do what I can to share my faith with a clear understanding of "but for God's grace there go I", but I will not piss on the greatest nation God ever gave man out of a misguided leftist notion that "tolerance" is the greatest virtue we have and, in the minds of the rest of the population, Christianity means you're supposed to be an ideological doormat.
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In my experience it requires a profound faith to believe that, against all observable tendencies, elegance, complexity, and organization arise spontaneously from chaos by purely random means. The upshot is that at the end of the day, despite claimed adherence to pure reason, we're all people of faith.
Descriptive hyperbole indeed!
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