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dont any of u see the difference between a strong defense and appeasment?
like do u think the world we live in today is so perfect that we shouldnt worry about agression anymore? i certainly wish it was so, but the realization that we are where we are today on the cusp of this utopian world in large part because the US and its allies finally defeated most of the evil in the world and even brought the evil empire of the USSR into our family of nations now....
is the general consensus among u guys that america shouldnt and ought not have to have overwhelming strength so as to promote peace and a pax americana anymore?
peace is wonderful and its certainly the desire of many.
but peace can also lead to appeasement and to violence - 50 years of peace from the end of the us civil war to the start of ww1 was replaced by the worst half century of war in all of humanity - and the fact that during the heady times of peace people didnt care that countries were developing strong weapons and militant ideologies because it was easier to just love the peace that reigned at the time and not want to look at the real picture developing.
i hate that my ideas get so many people angry, because at the end of the day i want the same thing u do - and i think that the way you are going about thinking it will come about is simply wrong.
whos gonna stand up to china- not to fight china- but to show china that despite their 1.5 billion people we are still strong enough to maintain the balance of power in the world and shouldnt be thought of as a potential target-
that would be better for china (as they woudlnt get any ideas of starting huge wars) and it would be better for Us (as we would be able to protect ourselves with ACTIONs and not simply words)
"who the fuck does bush think he is putting missles on european ground"
like anybody who knows even a small amount of modern history knows that american missles were in europe for decades guarding against soviet agression - so who does bush think he is? how about one more president in a long line of us presidents that continued a policy designed to protect the world from soviet agression.
the same point i made about being powerful to check china applies to russia as well- russia will appreciate a desire for peace but only from a POSITION OF STRENGTH- if we are weak , then we will be taken advantage of -its as simple as that.
so does peace mean let your guard down for a prolonged enough period to give the people against u enough time to develop capabilities to ultimately destroy you?
in the pax americana we are allowed to debate these issues freely , imagine comunist china was on the top of the heap - do u think they would allow us to freely debate their actions the same way the Us does? rofl. u people who want to change things so much i think dont recognize how good things are and how the potential is there in the framework of freedom and democracy to make it even better- if not perfect, as long as we always keep in mind that freedom comes from STRENGTH!
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