munitions, not ammunitions.
hared= harder.

And Tango, sorry about that, meant ‘Charlie Foxtrot’.

don’t get me wrong here, I suport the idea of a just war, as I consider ww2 to have been. It’s just that ‘cannon diplomacy’ seems to old an ideal today. We need new ideals.

That America try to change much of its ammunition to remotely steered doesn’t change this fact, and is also one of the main reasons why they try to do it. A civil war f.ex, is not won ultimately by guns, but by people talking. And if you look to the most horrible genocides there have been between different folkgroups, and then how those Countries later try to solve it you will find that is through talk, and not through more punishments and more killings.

The western ideal of John Wayne, and the lone ranger shaping ‘justice’ is a nice one as it feeds the ego of us all, but it ain’t true when it comes to reality. Americans believe in the concept of ‘overkill’ and it works. But it doesn’t consider the innocents, aka civilians. Every war that we get involved now is harder and hared directed with the media being treated as ‘lapdogs’. And that I expect most of you to know.

As for ‘hateful regimes’. Sure, as a Westerner I find a lot of the ideals of the conservative muslim’s both strange, distasteful and oppressive. To me it stinks, but it doesn’t give me the right to go in killing of some of the ‘bad guys’ and then set new ones to the Country’s rudder. Those Countries, how backward and peasantlike like they may seem to a modern Westerner do have their own history, thousands of years, and even though we find much of their behavior barbaric we won’t solve it by killing some and then see just the same people come to power, but now supported by us.

‘Hearts and minds’ is a relatively modern military expression minted by the Brittish that is a very good idea. And I think that was what you were referring to Tango? But as long as you have as many injustices happening, as a chopper shooting up civilians in Iraq you can’t expect that to work. For it to work you need a very disciplined force manned by guys that somehow can lift themselves from their memory’s of friends killed and maimed, and then somehow act with a ‘godlike vision’. I doubt that to be possible, and therefore I am of the view that a war always should be a last resort, for any Country.

And there are no longer any possibility to hide behind ‘I was only obeying orders’, not since the Nuremberg trials. And as a educated man I’m sure you know that too. I have all admiration for the soldiers of any disciplined army trying to do an impossible job, because an invasion is just that, an impossible job.

Unclench your anuses and save your preaching for somewhere more appropriate.

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I believe we never should have invaded Iraq–the 2nd time; we should’ve finished the job the 1st time, and saved a lot of Kurdish lives!–but still: our soldiers may have killed, but I don’t think they’ve committed war crimes!

Sometimes killing IS moral . . . do you disagree with this statement?

Hard to be afraid of something you’re a card-carrying member of.

Yeah. They’re asking for 7-figure ransoms so they can hand it out around town like Robin Hood. Right.

You really are a brainless dope. Whatever college diploma you have is clearly not worth the paper its printed on.

The UK?”

Another country that does not bow to Sharia. And therefore attacked.

We were attacked, and continue to be under threat, because the majority of us do not submit to their god. Plain and simple. Worldwide Sharia is their goal, any anyone who disagrees is to be killed, and any government that resists is to be collapsed.

Unless we do something about it, which bedwetters like yourself can’t handle. Hence the gentleman in the photo.

Oh, but–hey! If the soldiers had been brought home sooner, say, before the crash of one year ago, imagine what our unemployment rate would be!
:::with nary a trace of real humor::: :-/

Also, I’m being picky, Shortright, but one doesn’t have a choice in using one’s brain stem . . . it does its job without advice from the higher brain functions.

MAX, THAT’S THE FUNNIEST THING I’VE READ IN A LONG TIME.

(I don’t know what that says about me, though. Maybe I don’t read enough, anymore.)

This place is all about flinging insults and wildly ricocheting emotions.

(J/K)

LIFE – WAR = PROSPERITY

[I'm really into simplicity, lately. ]

“So many Americans don’t trust the US government to run stuff, except for when it comes to deciding where to go to war?”

Wow, that boils it down so well . . . I think the resulting precipitate is really hard to argue.

I’ve been really impressed by you, Danbala, for quite some time now. The above really cemented that into place.

[I'm still torn between thinking the statement so clear and jaw-droppingly simple, yet wanting to laugh at an anti-universal healthcare con's expression as (s)he tries to come back from it. Sheer perfection.]

Wait a second, you’re going to try and compare smoking (which is done voluntarily), traiffic accidents (which more often than not is someone’s stupidity) to 9/11 (which was the killing of innocents)?

He’s comparing the loss of life vs. cost (in lives and $), not the CAUSES of the loss of life. That’s immaterial in his particular comment, don’t you see?

His end result was the nation’s spending on healthcare vs. waging war, and he’s right: our priorities are EFFed up.

But see . . . aggression focused outward . . . that’s an easy, simple emotion which has been stirred up by our leadership: “Look, an enemy (a simple answer to a complex problem): Let’s go after it!” Much easier than getting people to care about complex problems here at home, particularly when many people say, as you do, that some health problems are self-inflicted.

Prove to me where we’ve actually killed or captured lots of members of Al Quaeda–the group who committed the attack on September 11th–not just people who are Taliban or Iraqi fighters, but *Al Quaeda*.

Have we stopped them? NO. They are in other countries, too, you know. Can one EVER stop a terrorist organization with direct military action? Can one ever change a *mind* that way, particularly one with a cause? A cause with a religious, cultural, or nationalist basis? The answer is a big, fat, NO.

Oh, and BTW: Just because someone is NOT in the military, doesn’t mean he or she is not “tough”; it simply means he or she made different choices in life. Perhaps they wanted to contribute more in other ways or thought their particular talents could be put to better use through other means.

Suspect the various militaries get many recruits partly because, in many ways, our Great Big Brains prevent us (especially when young) from imagining ALL of the consequences of our actions. Also explains why most recruiting attempts are aimed at the Very Young.

The spikes really aren’t too bad! Not barbed, just pointy. Amount of pokiness for any given hedgehog depends on how well he/she knows your scent and how much he/she was enjoying his/her dream before you picked him/her up. (They really do like to sleep.) Pokiness depends on how much the given hedgehog is flexing spikes. Once the hog knows you, they only flex a little (presumably to get their annoyance across), and only minor poking of hands occurs. If they’re scared or REALLY unhappy, they go into full-flex mode and the spikes cross like caltrops. That’s when one uses gloves, or a dustpan, to lift the ‘hog…

Make sure the ‘hog has a large, solid exercise wheel (also about $17 – $21), feed it a low carb/ low iron dry cat food (Taste of the Wild is decent) and dry hedgehog food on the side (about 3 tbsp a day total, not bad pricewise). Have something under its home to provide heat (I use an indoor/outdoor cat nonflex plastic electric heat pad, placed under the kennel, and dense foam camping pad — also Wal-mart — under both kennel and heat pad). Once you handle the inital setup costs, maintenance is pretty decent for an exotic. They’re nocturnal, friendly but generally perfectly okay if you leave them alone, and live 3+ years. Much like a very small cat, with spikes.

When the story was told to me, it was with a bent towards humor. The man who told it likes women very much, and in fact later married a female fellow Marine. Glad you don’t suffer from PMS! Really, it sucks…my first thought when the story was told was that our country was wasting an excellent opportunity to put the natural impulses of having dominant estrogen to very good use. Imagine the possibillities! And keep one’s sense of humor engaged whilst imagining.