Quote Originally Posted by Torog
Howdy delusion,

America has thrown billions of dollars at ignorance and poverty,not only here,but around the world..but it still happens,anyhow. When ya say "a contented population",that makes me think of a population that's asleep at the wheel. Our country has become divided,because yer side is content to enjoy the freedom that you have already,while at the same time,y'all are making excuses for those who choose to commit violence against others..yer side even believes that America deserves it and that the innocents who perished on 9/11/01,were most deserving,because they are 'little eichmanns'.

According to yer logic,we shouldn't have stuck our noses in,when saddam invaded Kuwait,that we should have just looked away,while saddam's troops were looting,raping and pillaging.

Have a good one ...
please don't lump me in with the peace at any cost, touchy feely, money for nothing crowd. i may be an aging hippie, but i'm no foole.
i know you can't rid the country of poverty by throwing money around, it takes a change in attitude (which can be engineered). shouldn't we try to rid ourselves of corruption before we go out and save the world? we protect the rich, ignore the poor, and squeeze the middle for all it's worth. we could give the poor a chance for advancement and we could educate the ignorant, but then the power hungry would have to share (we can't have that, now can we). the division that should concern us is between the haves and have-nots, now between the hawks and the doves.
that "yer side" you keep harping on troubles we a bit as well. granted, there are many believe we have brought this mess on ourselves and they are not entirely wrong. as we run around the world enforcing our way of life on everyone we meet, we can't help but make a few enemies (no, i am not making excuses for any motherfucker who would dare to attack us). we have propped up violent regimes all around the world, who are we to decide which ones to destroy and which to tolerate. aiding our friends around the world is all well and good, but declaring war on someone just because we deem them unfriendly has never been in our best interest.
in short, we just can't afford to police the whole damn world. our morality is not shared by everyone and forcing them to bend to our will by force never has worked and probably never will.



yeah, it's all pie in the sky shit, but it never hurts to dream.
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