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2006-07-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-30 09:27|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Thanks for the post NS. My late father always said, "we'd be much better off to stay on our own shores and the hell out of other folk's business. If they violate you, say nothing but take a big stick and whack the living hell outta them and come back home." He always said "they'd been fighting it out over there for thousands of years and they would never be peaceful like our neighbors across the Wabash in Indiana." Simple country logic, but he older I get, the more truth I see in it.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-30 11:25|| 2006-07-30 11:25|| Front Page Top

#2 I've got to admit that my default position is to agree with your father. My problem is we've been violated but the right people haven't been whacked. When I see Abrams cruising through Tehran and Mecca, I'll be ready to come home.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-30 11:33|| 2006-07-30 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree NS.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-30 11:35|| 2006-07-30 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 And those moon rocks cost too damn much! We could'a had free health care and ponys!

Posted by 6 2006-07-30 13:20|| 2006-07-30 13:20|| Front Page Top

#5 I begining to think Americans are getting tired of nation building and I am going to feel real sorry for the next country that makes us mad enough to invade. That country going to get the no holds bar version of war and the MSM going to see what a real war looks like.

Posted by djohn66 2006-07-30 14:28|| 2006-07-30 14:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm an old-style isolationist. But, the sad truth today is that America has long since stopped being self-sufficient. Back in the 70s, decisons were made with far-reaching consequences. We are now dependent on foreign products for our livelihood. Telling the rest of the world to suck it simply won't work. The plutocrats that give money to the politicians won't allow such a thing to pass - they might lose money!

Posted by gromky 2006-07-30 14:36|| 2006-07-30 14:36|| Front Page Top

#7 The US has two long-term 'enemies' worthy of concern in the world; Islam and China. We're fighting Islam in Iraq and Afghanistan with our own forces; fighting via Special Ops, proxies, and allies is going on other places. I think the decision was made some time ago to take a different path with China - and also different than was taken with the USSR. Still MAD, but with China the 'D' is for dependence. We are dependent on each other with our trade, and with our financial markets, to the point where the economic failure of either country severely hurts both. So we dance around the fringes, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, India - more shadow-boxing than sparring.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-07-30 15:22|| 2006-07-30 15:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Groky:

I think we should give the average American more credit. It would mean some changes, but I think we could become "self sufficient" rather quickly if we had to. You're spot on about the politicians however, they're globalist millionaires who could care less about Peoria.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-30 15:24|| 2006-07-30 15:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Isolationism no longer works in the age of nuclear weapons. Anyone who thinks so is merely inviting terrorist nuclear attacks on American soil. In the name of our own national security, we are obliged to go out and whack every single potential threat we have the time and patience to smack down.

At the same time that we perform these pre-emptive strikes, we should also be doing our d@mnedest to bring the Internet to every single country imaginable. If it requires setting up dedicated satellite downlinks for the entire Mid-East and Islamic regions, so be it. Just as the information age brought about the downfall of Soviet dictatorship, so will the Internet (help) bring an end to Islamic fascism.

Folks hereabout who jokingly say we should bombard the Arabic countries with endless pronography, male enhancement ads, farmgirls gone wild and breast augmentation spam have just about got it right. Only the free flow of information is going to have anywhere near the effect of sustained bombing campaigns. And I'll leave it to you to guess which choice is less expensive.

Posted by Zenster 2006-07-30 18:48|| 2006-07-30 18:48|| Front Page Top

#10 One of the worst things to come out of Iraq is that America will not enter into a pre-emptive war till after we're all long gone.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-30 19:01|| 2006-07-30 19:01|| Front Page Top

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