F-35 is even porkier and worse for you. It's a stealth fighter bomber vertical take off and land hybrid. Sounds like its totally worth $400M a piece. Just what we need 2,500 of when we're already $16,400,000,000,000 in the hole.
You know what would save even more lives? If we minded our god damn business and quit interfering in the affairs of foreigners.
Go ahead and bury that head a little deeper! It will be OK!
I am astounded that a people who just had their nation lead the entire free world through the cold-war, which without US leadership/strength would have left us alone with no trading partners and an entire Europe under Soviet domination for decades (at least), can really believe that the US should withdraw into a shell or stick its collective head into the sand and pretend world events will just happen and leave us alone along the way.
Maybe I am mis-understanding are you really saying that you believe that the US has become reckless and misused the right to intervene, even abroad, as necessary or are you saying that even if reasonable and practical the US has no moral right to intervene anywhere?
Also please remember that in (nearly) every place we have intervened there have been some elements that really did want our help if that matters in your equation.
If only Al Queida would do the same. Unfortunately, that is not reality.
the isolationists figure that if we just leave everyone else alone then they'll leave us alone.
Yes, yes, if only we were nicer to them, then they would love us.
No, they would hate us just as much because it our very lifestyle....
As for minding our own business, we tried that, and the result was Hitler.
Well they damn sure ain't doin' it on their own.....so I mean how else do ya' figure they are gonna' quit screwin' around and accept Jesus Christ as their lord and saviour?
For the sake of argument let's say it has been all above board and well intended....how much do ya' figure the concept of "picking yer battles" comes into play in those scenarios?I mean, do ya' figure maybe some situations aren't outright ignored/disregarded with ill intent but rather there hasn't been a practical way to resolve them without the possibility of creating a huge problem much too dangerous to risk?
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Isn't that...uh, I don't wanna' say "largely the reason" because I don't know to what degree I'd be bullshitting myself, but isn't that some of the reason countries have been known to fund "revolutionaries" in other places?
Quite true but a fact the isolationists consider irrelevant.
Like the obamanation the isolationists figure that if we just leave everyone else alone then they'll leave us alone. That might be true if the good guys were in charge everywhere, might. Unfortunately they aren't. Bad guys see those with a live and let live attitude as weak and will take advantage in any way they can. Other bad guys could care less if one is weak or strong. If you've got something they want they'll try to get it any way they can. And other bad guys who despise the way you live, or the god you worship, or the color of your skin or even that you've got more stuff than they do will try to kill you any way they can.
No matter the type of bad guy being dealt with, in each and every case it is to one's advantage to seek to curtail the bad guy's activities, no matter where he may reside, to preclude him succeeding in his quest to take what he wants from you or to destroy you.
That's just the way it is.
There are good guys and there are bad guys. They've been fighting each other since the 1st hominid picked up a leg bone and bashed in the head of the hominid that stole his mate. It will remain true until the last human being in the universe dies on some far away planet in some far away galaxy at the tentacles of some evil alien monster hell bent on ridding the universe of mankind.
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