@Soon_U_Die:
Sorry, but your attempts to portray the US as a war mongering imperialist regime are laughable.
When was the last president of the US who did not fight a war?
This i copied from:
http://www.motherbedford.com/USMHWebring.htm
A list of US “wars” since the Civil War:
Spanish - American War ~ 1898
Boxer Rebellion ~ 1900
Panama Revolt ~ 1903
Revolt In Nicaragua ~ 1911
Mexican Revolution ~ 1913
World War I ~ 1917 - 1918
World War II ~ 1941 - 1945
Korean Conflict ~ 1950 - 1953
Bay Of Pigs Invasion ~ 1961
Race Riots ~ 1965 - 1968
Vietnam War ~ 1965 - 1975
Second Battle Of Wounded Knee ~ 1973
Invasion Of Grenada ~ 1983
Raid On Libya ~ 1986
Gulf War ~ 1987 - 1991
Operation Desert Storm ~ 1991
Defense Of Honduras Against Sandinistas ~ 1988
Invasion Of Panama ~ 1989
Invasion Of Somalia ~ 1992
Seizure Of Haiti ~ 1994
US Involvement In Serbia/Croatia~ 1994, 1998
Operation Infinite Justice ~ 2001
If you subtract the Race Riots and the second battle of Wounded Knee (something i have not heard of) this is 22 engagements.
If i had a look at one of the “leftists” pages, i probably would end up with some more.
By any objective means, analysis of the military power of the US relative to the world and its neighbours, against its use of that power to its advantage, is miniscule compared to ANY other powerful regime in history.
Should we learn of history and try to be “better” than the past?
Could also please provide a link to one of those analysis?
When presented with the actual facts on the relative use of military power, ….
(a) relative to what? (b) Did you compare the amount and the worth of bombs to be dropped on the Iraq with the ones from previous wars (say, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf WarII) ?
Your arguments are consistently weak.
Are yours any better? Is there any backup for your words apart from your personal opinion?
You state the US is a christian fundamentalist nation, yet you offer zero examples that actually relate to religion.
At least i have as many examples for this as you for your objective means of the US being relatively peaceful.
You state that the US does research on WMD yet does not sign treaties on them…LOL. Ahh, Comprehensive Test Ban, Non-Proliferation…sound familiar.
Ok, i should have added “some”, and not read “at all” into it, as you did in your interpretation of my posting.
Still, the US does a lot of research, even on offensive chemical weapons (which is illegal!), although they claim the loophole of non-lethal weapons just as the gas the russians used in the cinema last year, where only about 130 civilians died of that non-lethal gas.
Just because they don’t blindly do whatever you and the peaceniks want, doesn’t make them wrong.
Doesn’t make them right either.
It’s so easy when you are in a country that does zero to actually project power and influence the world around you.
You are disqualifying yourself on purpose, aren’t you?
Whibh nation is supplementing of the troops in Afghanistan at the moment?
You live off the coat tails of the US. … Whether it is war, terrorism, natural disaster, whatever…who bails everyone out? … But, you don’t understand the US at all…or so it appears to me.
Interesting that i (as EU) “pay”, but still live of the “coat tails”.
For the “who bails everyone out”… i wonder why you put natural desasters in there, for each example you give there i can probably give about 5 where no US soldier ever came to help. For the terrorism: the US there has a small scope as well. There is terrorism in Spain, North Ireland etc., yet i haven’t seen a single US soldier there. Or maybe you are using “terrorism” already as a synonym for “muslim fundamentalists terrorism”?
You state that they did not sign the anti-personnel mine treaty. LOL. Yes, and they are sowing them all around the world aren’t they? Duh…you think maybe it has something to do with those mines seperating North Korea from South Korea? Don’t just trot out newspaper headlines…think it through.
How many civilians are crippled or die each year of anti person mines? did you ever think of that percentage, compared to non-civilian casualties? How many years is an area “contamined” (sp?) by these mines? Tell me one country with a civil war in the last 20 years, where these mines have not been used.
Even if you take the newest US report on the amount of AP land mines still out there, you get a number of about 70 millions (40 millions more than a few years earlier, strange if you compare that to the numbers of actually disarmed and removed mines in the order of 100.000s per year).
Kyoto. What a joke. … Try actually analyzing the US position. … the US has chosen a different path. Does is surprise you to learn that the US has committed more funding to R&D in emmissions reductions in the past few years than ever before, and on a scale that dwarfs everyone else?
How much is this “dwarfing”?
And yes, if it is true, then it is surprising. BTW: How much of that is still spent there under the GWB gov’t? COuld you bring that number as well, please?
The fruit is already being borne. Recent breakthroughs suggest the US will bring on-line the world’s first zero emmissions coal fired electricity plant within 7 years. Yes, a zero emission coal plant…
That sounds interesting, a link would be nice.
So please, don’t assume that your chosen path is the only possible path towards any goal. You might want to actually research some of these topics as well, instead of just regurgitating simplistic headlines.
I wonder if you ever considered your sentences above there.
The difference is I actually educate myself on the issues.
How could i forget that i am too stupid to think myself. Warm thanks for remembering me of that.
Maybe i should try to educate myself, but probably i will never be so successful that i can be sure that i educated myself.