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Old 09-10-2016, 09:19 AM
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Default RE: Your view of HISTORY

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Really? Korea threatened us? Vietnam threatened us? Iraq? Libya? Egypt? Iran? Afghanistan? Syria? They ALL threatened us? Our freedom was in jeopardy? From them?

You're being lied to. The "news" is propaganda. America is an EMPIRE and it keeps its empire through violence. Why do you think we spend more than anyone else? More than what, the top 5 countries put together?

The "vision" you have...the "dream" you have of "America" (your government) is a fantasy. We've become violent bullies. Stop supporting them, stop voting for any D or R.

I did 20 years in the military. ONLY in the last two years, when I had a "headquarters" job did I realize just how FALSE most of what we think we know really is.

Our military have become mercenaries. Made available to anyone when we decide necessity.

Your government is what needs to go. The corrupt people running it needs to go. ALL of them...Ds and Rs.

It's like sticking up for your uncle all those years and finally finding out he WAS molesting the kids. You're supporting a "government" that is evil.
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I find it remarkable the difference between the history as rammed into our heads in school and later reading. A great book on the subject is DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY.

You've mentioned Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria. There are books on each of them asking if they were necessary. Unfortunately, other than in sci fy we cannot explore what would have happened if we did or did not.

RE: what we spend on the military
Eisenhower warned to beware of the industrial military complex. Is it justified-reread my suggestion of sci-fy do-overs. We currently have 26 aircraft carriers-more than the entire rest of the world has. France has one.
That is a huge TARGET it has 2000 troops on it hundreds of airplanes and it can be sunk with ONE MISSAL. Marine grade paint is like $50 a quart. Paint on an aircraft carrier-beats me.

You mention mercenary army
As pointed out by TRUMP our alies ought to pay their FAIR SHARE. Our alies in the middle east wars, battles??????
We are paying the bulk of the costs and doing the bulk of the wounded and dead-like 80%. The few troops that France sent to Afghanistan arrived WITH NO AMMUNITION. Like you mooch friend that smokes your cigarettes as they have gotten too expensive or uses YOUR BALLS to play golf etc. We all use NATO SIZED AMMO so they USED OUR ....... The numbers are truly shocking when you discover the US gets very little oil from the middle east-our oil is domestically produced with imports mostly from CANADA and MEXICO. If, we made it OUR GOAL, we could become totally independent of middle eastern oil.

SADLY, I DO NOT HAVE THE ANSWERS BUT WE HAVE TRIED KUMBAYAH IT ONLY WORKED TILL THE EFFECT OF A JOINT WORE OFF.