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2011-03-27 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2011-03-27 06:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Most people look at WWII as the model when in most cases it's been the exception. One just has to look at over a hundred years of warfare on the Western Frontier to grasp the lack of a definitive resolve to an issue. However, even in Europe with the formal signing of a piece of paper what did America get? Fifty plus years of military welfare for the Europeans. How many divisions did the French and British field in 1940 and how many could they do today? Yet America financed the defense of Western Europe while they implemented generous unsustainable social welfare programs that became the darlings of the American left. When the wall came down and the Soviet empire imploded, America should have pulled back then, but the inertia of institutions kept it protecting European interests, first in the Balkans than at their oil sources. Our position in post war Japan dragged us into Korea where, too, we're still engaged, even though as with Europe the population and GDP is more than adequate for them to take care of themselves. And how long will we be posted elsewhere, Iraq, Central Asia, and now Africa? It's an unending expensive military commitment even with the appropriate papers printed, signed, and published.

If you can't executed the most vile individuals in our own society for clear, abhorrent and unquestionable crimes and thus simply build more and more costly prisons to warehouse them, were do you expect to get the 'will' to destroy not just tyrants but the cultures that breed such animals in the rest of the world. When you have the means and fail to use it, the 'will' is only obstruction. That 'will' can only be summed when the people experience the price of tens or hundreds of thousands of its citizens are vaporized or overwhelming the medical establishment as the result of a WMD on its soil. Then the leash will be unbound and a finality will be found. Don't tell me that in an 'advanced' civilization we don't practice human sacrifice when we know the potential and refuse to act till such sacrifices are properly carried out to absolve the survivors of their 'guilt' for doing that which must be done.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-27 09:52|| 2011-03-27 09:52|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Dribble2716 2011-03-27 10:36|| 2011-03-27 10:36|| Front Page Top

#3 The Sinktrap, I see, is just about clogged.

Sometimes he has something interesting to say, but it seems more like he's trying to get us all in trouble, somehow...

Posted by Bobby 2011-03-27 12:28|| 2011-03-27 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 >Yet America financed the defense of Western Europe while they implemented generous unsustainable social welfare programs that became the darlings of the American left

It's a n iron rule that subsidy lowers quality... Just look at Americas subsidised schools.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-03-27 12:37|| 2011-03-27 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Just look at Americas subsidised schools...

Bright Pebbles said it. When ones sends offspring to school with cocaine and sex addled teenagers, or even younger, at least they should be able to learn something from teachers... that aren't resting on their public pension laurels or doing the drugs themselves.

I am a product of a private H.S. and was fortunate to learn what college kids get in the tenth grade. Public schools never enter into my thinking, because the the quality education my parents received at public schools are relics of the past, with very few exceptions. Times have changed.

Posted by Fi 2011-03-27 12:55|| 2011-03-27 12:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I understand the importance of keeping things more-or-less on topic here at Rantburg, but I'm not sure why so many of Dribble's comments have been sinktrapped. I went through the comments and they seem more pithy and irreverent than anything else.

I've seen worse here.

Again, he's offensive and quite often off-topic, but I have a theory about Dribble: he's A) French (or possibly Swiss), and B)he's subjecting us to some fairly abstract, Celine-like humor.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-03-27 15:26|| 2011-03-27 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Celine haz humor?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-27 15:37|| 2011-03-27 15:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't tell me that in an 'advanced' civilization we don't practice human sacrifice We always have. It's going on right now at Fukushima Daiichi.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-27 15:38|| 2011-03-27 15:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, speaking of pithy: good article BTW.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-03-27 15:39|| 2011-03-27 15:39|| Front Page Top

#10 French author Louis-Ferdinand Celine. He wrote Voyage To The Edge Of Night and Death On The Installment Plan. In fact, in English he reads a bit like Dribble, which is what brought him to mind. Similar sense of humor as well, which I take to be a French(ish) thing.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-03-27 15:42|| 2011-03-27 15:42|| Front Page Top

#11 I understand the importance of keeping things more-or-less on topic here at Rantburg, but I'm not sure why so many of Dribble's comments have been sinktrapped. I went through the comments and they seem more pithy and irreverent than anything else.

Personally, I think Dribble is a hoot. I look in the sinktrap for he/she/it. Reckless writing is fun to read!

Posted by Fi 2011-03-27 16:41|| 2011-03-27 16:41|| Front Page Top

#12 I respect the fact that it's Fred's site but Dribble made me chuckle a bit.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2011-03-27 17:04|| 2011-03-27 17:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Dribble makes a number of comments that make my teeth itch.

He's frequently walking right up to the line on racist comments, and occasionally steps over. We at the Mod Squad are concerned that he might be a moby.

Sometimes he has something interesting or humorous to say. We'll let those go through. But if he mashes our buttons he'll be sinktrapped each and every time. We're not going to let a moby take down the Burg.

AoS

Posted by Steve White 2011-03-27 17:32|| 2011-03-27 17:32|| Front Page Top

#14 "sense of humor as well, which I take to be a French(ish) thing"

The French think Jerry Lewis (ferchrissakes) is a comic genius, SM.

'Nuff said.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-03-27 17:32|| 2011-03-27 17:32|| Front Page Top

#15 And Momma will watch the soaps in New Jersey and Missouri and Uncle Buddy will drive the schoolbus part time. And nothing lasts forever, for in the real world you better have a little money or a gun (on you, not at home in a drawer) if you want to get your gas tank full. It isnt going to get any better than this.

Cynical and French sounding? Yes. Jerry Lewis (and Dean Martin) in Your Never Too Young? Not so much.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-03-27 17:48|| 2011-03-27 17:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Because when you square a half ass you get something worse?

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-03-27 18:48|| 2011-03-27 18:48|| Front Page Top

#17 Dribble2716 writes fluidly, if incoherently. But many of the things he writes make me feel nauseous, as no one here, including some of our ugliest trolls -- excepting only Angleton9 -- has ever succeeded in doing.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-03-28 00:01|| 2011-03-28 00:01|| Front Page Top

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