The U.S. has the biggest baddest military ever, fuck yeah!
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so what good is that doing anybody?
and is it really a good thing that we have developed a military powerful enough to destroy the entire surface of the planet? i think we should be ashamed of this, instead of the typical overflowing pride
and is it really a good thing that we have developed a military powerful enough to destroy the entire surface of the planet? i think we should be ashamed of this, instead of the typical overflowing pride
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i am being serious. everyone is always so proud of our military strength, so i want to know why. thats all.
to me, it seems to be to be a silly idea for humans to direct most of their wealth at developing/maintaining more effective ways of killing each other and destroying what they have built. and then to blindly pump their fist in pride, wothout really looking at the much larger picture and long term impact on the human species.
I don't really have a problem with us having the most powerful military, but at the same time I am ashamed that we are still dumping trillions of dollars into new nuclear weapons, other weapons systems and things like the terribly incapable missile defense system.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
look at the history of mankind. war has been part of it since the beginning. countries will always need to have a defense system. what else would stop someone from coming in and calling it their own? as much as you hate to accept it (understandable so). this will be part of human nature until the end of time. all we can do is promote peace. the earth has limited resources which means their will always be conflict to obtain those resources.
ok i will.
the human species has made many amazing advances throughout it's brief stay on the planet. major advances have been made, and continue to be made, such as womens rights, racism, slavery, workers rights, childrens rights, education, medicine, science, agriculture, transportation, etc. shit, we figured how to fly and have golfed on the moon (now thats fucking amazing). so i do not buy, for one second, that violence and war is human nature and will always exist on a large scale. bar fights may be inevitable, but a large coordinated campaign of violence with large public support is a different story, that can be "history" as you say....i think it is the easy way of the discussion for us to say it is natural or inevitable. we assume it is impossible, just as most thought the world was flat and space travel was unthinkable at one time. progress is the goal for all of us, and this should be on top of the list. it is up to us, you can only control you and your beliefs. i do not intend to change the world tommorow alone. but i do intend on being a small piece of the overall progress, a player on the team. i only own my mind :cool:
By Pierre Haski
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Monday 11 June 2007
In the face of that, the effort the G-8 agreed on for Africa was 60 billion dollars. A demagogic observation? You decide ...
It's demagogic, but I can't help myself. At the end of last week, the G-8 meeting in Germany promised 60 billion dollars for Africa, a sum presented as a significant effort to bring this continent out of despair. Monday, a report revealed that global military spending had reached 1,200 billion dollars last year, that is, an increase of 3.50 percent over the prior year (and of 37 percent over ten years). Take out your calculator: 3.50 percent of 1,200 billion makes the tidy sum of 42 billion dollars, just for the increase over last year. Something to compare to the G-8 gesture ...
Demagogic, I said, even before the first outraged comments came in ... Obviously, countries not spending this money for their armament, or excessive armament, will not make Africa any better off or assure that the sums thus economized be used wisely. Africa itself, moreover, participates in this spending with several conflicts between the impoverished in Somalia or in the Congo ... Remember the maps that we lined up last week: Africa comes in at the head of continents where people are dying in warfare.
Moreover, when the planet naively believed, after the end of the Cold War, that the arms race was over, development aid did not, all the same, profit. That was the time when we could report from former USSR tank factories converted into frying pan plants ... Today, people present the fact that Vladimir Putin proposed to George W. Bush that he should install his anti-missile shield in Azerbaijan as a great diplomatic breakthrough ...
So let's forget Africa and get back to military spending. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) annual report allows us to follow the ever-instructive curve of military spending. There one may learn, for example, that the United States spent 529 billion dollars on their military operations in 2006, or a five percent increase over the previous year, essentially due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to the report, France, China, Japan and Great Britain each represented four to five percent of global military spending in 2006. The United States and Russia were the principal arms vendors from 2002 to 2006, with the share of each representing about 30 percent of global sales. Ultimately, China and India remain the world's main arms importers. Two countries in the midst of full-bore economic booms, certainly, but both with significant shares of their population below the poverty line ...
And to show how far we have come from a disarmament perspective, the report shows that, "The volume of conventional weapons traded internationally in 2006 was 50 percent higher than that of 2002."
But perhaps it's not so demagogic to make the connection between military spending and the fight against poverty. The Stockholm institute itself emphasizes that, "Millions of human beings' lives could be saved by health measures that would cost a tiny fraction of what the world spends every year on its armies."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061307G.shtml
neither do I, but we've made enough for that point decades ago, but we are still producing them... It makes no sense to me...
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
We got enough (the world) to kill eight billion people. There not even that many people on earth. It's insane logic to believe that that many nuclear weapons are needed and should be developed.
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Also, nukes are great against aliens.
Only if a drunk pesticide pilot can fly his jet into that blue thingy.
lets stick to strictly our country, the good old USA. i cant control the politics of another country or region.
who is a threat to our borders? who would invade us? why would they do that? do you really think we are threatened, with or without our arsenal?
ps...having several thousand nukes pointed at each others civilian centers is not realistic, that is insane.
if we had no means of defense, what would stop anyone from invading us? or attacking us?
I agree.
who would invade us and for what purpose?
mexico? canada?
your joking right. your advocating for having the worlds strongest military to prevent mexico from invading us?
when you really think about it, the self defense thing loses weight quickly. considering no one is a threat to invade us, and their really is no good reason to invade us. just as no one has invaded the erupoean countries with minimal military.
if we are the best country, then we lead by example. the current example we are setting is militarization and pre-emtpive war, littering the planet with weapons of unspeakable devastating power. we should be doing the exact opposite, leading this planet into a new era of awareness and progress.
no one is a threat to invade us???? That's a joke, right?? Start dismantling the naval and air force which the US has put together and I'm sure that there will be plenty of countries lining up to try to create instability and fear in this country.... hell some are already trying even with all the military might we have.
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I say with all seriousness, lets use our money to bring education and health to the World, and use charity to build funds for wars, then we will quickly see who supports war and how inevitable it is. Give us life, sell us war, not the other way around.
If ever a war NEEDS fighting then there are plenty of strong people of courage who will step forward and give whatever it takes, money/life for that. I strongly doubt it would be the same people who salivate watching others blood spilled
Why would they invade? for natural resources? money? what would they be giving their life to obtain? the Simpsons? there is one reason why anybody hates america, and its certainly not jealousy, stop kidding yourself man, its sad.
mexico or canada isnt a threat to us because of our military strength. and since when does a country need a "good" reason to invade? remember the alamo ring a bell? I'm not saying mexico would invade us but without a defense system we would be vulnerable.
I agree. but the world is a fucked up place. no matter how we lead, countries will always go to war with each other. I happen to like ron paul's approach with less foreign policy. although how much are we leading by example if we sit back and allow other countries destroy each other.
People move all over the world, for the "fill in the blank dream". I know many more that move to New Zealand which has unbelievable natural beauty, a miniscule military, and no history whatsoever of invasion. I know many many more that move to Australia which is mostly a barren, arid, shit-hole (no offence sheila:p), Spain, France, i know many many many that come to Britain. Do i need to go on?
Why would people be more jealous of america than a lot of other countries?
and what power and control is to be gained from invading america?
because we are the richest most successful country in the world. I know you hate that fact, sorry tini wini.
mexico fought a war to control texas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War.
Oh dear man.
No class, no sense, no balls.
you respect this shit above any other because your hard-wired anthem filled head has clearly been way too easy to control. Many others like a sense of history and class in their surroundings and natural beauty. I'm positive you can find this in a fair part of america too. Where do most of the people you talk about emigrate from?
Why did mexico want Texas?