A kinder, gentler machine gun hand?

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  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    gue_barium wrote:
    Don't kid yourself. The arms industry wants to keep the world at war. There are no boundaries to this desire. Consider the recent military purchases of Chavez in Venelzuela from the "Russians". Iraq and future military endevours are heavily (if not completely) influenced by such men, and that perverse desire to rule the world. It isn't an American problem, it is a world problem.


    that may be so but these other countries aren't the worlds only superpower. we should set the example, not lead the arms race.

    not sure what its at now but when clinton was president the us was responsable for more than 50% of the arms sales to the 3rd world...more than 1/2 of the weapons were sold by a single country...so, while russia and france and germany and whoever else sells arms, and that is bad, it's not nearly on the scale as what we do. it's a world problem but we're the leading cause of the problem
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    jlew24asu wrote:
    are we at war with these people?

    No, and you weren't at war with Iraq when you sold them chemical weapons with which to gas kurds. And you weren't at war with Indonesia when you sold them weapons with which to wipe out a quarter of the poulation of East Timor. You are also not directly at war with the Palestinians. Although if you think that giving Israel $4 billion worth of funding every year and supplying them with Caterpillar bulldozers which are designed with the sole purpose of demolishing Palestinian homes, along with F16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, tanks and guns e.t.c, isn't a factor in making the U.S a target for terrorists, then think again.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    ain't capitalism a bitch?

    Capitalism has nothing to do with this. This would happen under socialism or communism. Come up with another argument against capitalism.

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