Looks like someone has been watching too much CNN/Fox News.

I find it hilarious that the older people in this thread happen to be the most politically primitive. I'll be happy when you baby boomers are gone and I can get rid of this socialist excuse for a free state.

I never knew that the lack of ability to ascertain crucial facts was actually tantamount to a difference of opinion. Yes, indeed, we do learn something new everyday.

Correction: Soviet Union. Comrade Putin will suffer the consequences for his monstrous actions and the threats they made today against Poland are unacceptable.

To hell with the Arabs though. Wars in the Middle East are a waste of time. They just want to kill each other, and only seem to kill us when we get in their way. Such is the behavior of the Mesopotamian Hordes.

I'm sorry that it is difficult for you to comprehend the idea of someone condemning both Republicans and Democrats for the current state of affairs. That said, I think my frustration came out in the last post. Nothing annoys me more than people who don't read.

Correction: invasion of Georgia.



Evidently, you didn't read my first post at all. Either that or you are purposely acting stupid. Here, from my original post, since you need to be spoonfed;





Ah yes, the infamous "carrots and sticks" routines. Too bad Soviets don't eat carrots.

Oh, you wanted victory? Well, that's easy. You carpet bomb the entire country into oblivion. But we don't do that, you see. Our President wants to nation-build instead.

Yes, but apparently partisan hacks don't. The Soviets are on the verge of increasing the military spending within the next fiscal year if Putin gets his way (and he will), and this will include an expansion of personnel. If you think 1.5 million troops can be stationed on multiple fronts and successfully fend off Soviet troops/battle formation without mass casualties as a preventable result, then you are living in a different universe.

The War in Iraq IS over, now its time to leave and watch it fall apart because it can't support itself without American muscle.

Now that is complete partisan BS. You are meaning to tell me you expect to confront the Soviet Union on multiple fronts and defend the homeland with 1.5 million men and women, accompanied by an underfunded, undersized Navy? Custer would be proud of you.

A heartwarming tale of death and betrayal, no doubt, but it is blatantly obvious why the U.S. didn't do anything about it then. We were spending all of our time and military resources fighting the Cold War. So what's your point?

Wrong. Bush is just as guilty for going into Iraq as he is for going into that no-good slime bucket known as Afghanistan. We should have never gone there, let alone occupied that gutter. Operation Enduring Freedom was one of the worst foreign policy decisions ever made, next to Operation Iraqi Freedom and--we should have carpet bombed the nation into oblivion and left, not built schools and tried to win "hearts and minds." Had we done that, we would have been more adequately able to deal with this blood-thirsty Bear that is now coming out of hibernation. And even then, before he came into office, Clinton had essentially sold what good assets this military had to foreign interests during Operation Allied Force, which was the most criminal of them all.

You should probably read my post.

I don't want to see that closet-socialist mentioned again in my thread, understood? Bush is a spineless leader who has demonstrated in this crisis he cares more about his love child Putin than he does about the security of our nation and the rest of the western world.

Given the astounding show of force put on by the Soviet Union's urban mechanized units in their rape and pillaging of Georgia, it is fair to say that the Soviet military is very nimble, although not quite as strong as they were at their peak in the late-70s/early-80s. The military implications of this do not boast well for the American forces in their current state. For years, we've had liberals in the legislative and executive actively undermining the strength of our military--Clinton's infamous downsizing is now proving to be a disaster, even though that traitor Bush somewhat reversed that trend. Needless to say, his deployment of U.S. forces and equipment in this insane Arabian Expedition have been equally harmful on our military capabilities. Our real enemy is the Soviet Union, as she is now poised to force her hegemony over vital allies, with the expectation that we are stretched too thin to deal with it.

For nearly two decades now, we have heard the Clintons, the Pelosis, and the Edwardians at the federal level advocating the following:

- Reduction in nuclear weapon stockpiles
- Reduction in active military divisions AND naval fleets
- Reduction in military R&D
- Reduction of military support forces to accommodate regular defense cuts (this is the worst of them all, imo)

Now it is becoming quickly apparent that we will need to confront the Soviet Union in some manner with force--this does not mean war, but at the very least, the threat of war should she not behave. In the middle of all this, we have also figured out that we do not have the manpower to field any type of viable army against them, despite our superior equipment. So that stated, we are now paying the price for this radical peacenik agenda pushed upon us during the euphoria of the alleged "collapse" of the USSR. Our military is about 1.5 million active personnel, with another 1.5 million in reserve. These are shameful numbers given our current geopolitical situation, not to mention evidence of a lack of troops to successfully defend the homeland.

We MUST start expanding the manpower of the U.S. military; it is far too small to serve its designed purpose. We should aim for at least 3 million active personnel by the end of 2012, if not sooner, with an additional 2 million in reserve. Our defense spending is embarrassingly low, considering our GDP--despite what the pacifists say. We spend 550 billion a year to maintain it--this should increase two fold to more adequately protect our shores and our allies from Soviet interference.

It is true that the U.N. sanctions killed more Iraqis than it punished Saddam, but what do you mean "no one talks" about our Cold War-alliance with Saddam? Of course it's talked about, and it's a perfect case in retrospect showing the difference in Cold War policies and today. And what exactly do you mean "alleged" gassing of the Kurds? I'm not for the war in Iraq, but that gassing is not alleged--it's well documented as actually happening.

No, it is true--to disagree with me on this is just intellectual dishonesty. The application of slavery as we know it in the USA was not nearly half as bad as half-baked liberal history professors make it out to be. While it is true that the infamous "Uncle Tom" abuses took place, black people who were slaves had relatively sane living conditions compared to their Polish, Irish, and Chinese counterparts who were essentially exploited not just for labor, but for war as well. And though most blacks were not seen as legal individuals, they were treated much more humanely than other groups in America, as well as compared to those in Europe.

Quite simply put, in the most politically incorrect manner, blacks need to stop complaining about the moral wrongs committed on their ancestors. The political fall out today is justification for the ideas of deporting the former slaves back to Africa upon their emancipation. Thomas Jefferson once wrote:



Slavery was a ruse, a dying institution which could inevitably not exist within a civilized society, and assimilation of former slaves (and their descendants) is now primarily to blame for the social, and/or alleged "racist" problems of today. These are not consequence of being black or white; these are consequences of human nature.

Considering there were groups in the U.S. who were treated far worse than American blacks during slavery, I think the diversity-oriented mongrels in this thread should put their foot in their mouth and stop playing to the ethnic entrepreneurs who propagate such lies regarding American "racism." I put "racism" in quotes because it is largely a manufactured, exploitative tool used to divide and conquer. Obama has done his fair share in this election, but he's been leagues better than America's favorite bacterial infection: Jesse Jackson.

There is no more racism in America anymore than there is in Norway, China, or Kyrgyzstan. In fact, America is probably one of the most tolerant nations on Earth.

Contrary to popular belief, neoconservatives have a love of enforcing and worshiping international law as if it is the ruling doctrinal code of the world. It is the very thing that makes them so disgusting--they're liberals on crack.

That said, your topic is misleading and full of globalist propaganda. This sentence says it all:



I wonder what this author would say of the U.S.-supported theft of Kosovo from the Serbs? Apparently it's only a double-standard when only specific people advocate certain policies.

The U.S. has done some very bad things, particularly during wars, but it has never committed systematic genocide. Demonize America all you want--you can't prove otherwise.