Evil Beyond Imagination

[Netzach]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-PEaWUduCM

Olberman, wow.

Sometimes I love foamy Keith. Even though I'm much more of a Rachel type myself, there are times he's just what's needed.

 

[ThorkelGriersen]

And yet some of the first US boots on the ground were US military. PotUS earmarked 100 million off the cuff, and none of that goes to reimbursement of the military costs required for those boots. As an aside, name me another organization that combines all the things required for basic civilization and does each of them well enough to rival the civilian leaders in their fields. That would include FedEx, AT&T, and the Red Cross. The major difference? None of those organizations have a Ma Deuce (at a minimum) mounted in ring turrets on their vehicles.

i'll skip the administration costs of handling that 1% based on other well-intentioned efforts.Thank God, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster if that's your bent, for US Stingers.i thought they already had. i'm sure the family and friends of those lost on the USS Arizona and others at Pearl, Task Force Smith, Khe Sanh or the entire Wall for that matter, the Marine Barracks in Beirut, 9/11, Khobar Towers, ad nauseum would tend to disagree as well.So, the price of a life isn't worth $560,000.00, but

• 3.2 billion (1% of Clinton's lowest Defense budge in 1996)
• 7.3 billion (1% of Bush's highest Defense budget in 2008)
• 8.7 billion (1% of Obama's current defense budget for 2010)*

is fine with you? Can't have it both ways. i'd rather have a point target weapon fired from an unmanned drone take out an illiterate's dubiously armed device than risk an EOD service member's life when at all possible. And no, i didn't miss the hyperbole in your example either. As long as ~ 35% of China's GDP is based on exports and their dependence on foreign trade hovers @ 60%, i don't think so, nor do i really care. If you wanna ride the pony, you gotta pay, one way or another.

* All Defense budget outlays extrapolated from these reported figures.

This entire post is so perpendicular to what I said, that I could almost see it as a deliberate decision to misunderstand.

To answer all that you said would, most probably, be moot.

The simple fact is that all the bullets and bombs in the world cannot kill an idea. That's what Swift was talking about in Gulliver's Travels: consider the Lilliputians.

Osama bin Laden freely admits that head-to-head he could never take on the US. His entire strategy is to cause us to spend ourselves to death. Those who have spent the time to examine his messages know this.

If you think that Stinger missiles defeated the USSR, you have completely misunderstood. Look at an old movie "The Three Stooges meet Frankenstein." They run down the hall, enter a room, slam the door, and pile all the furniture against the door. Finally they collapse in exhaustion and Frankenstein walks in the door on the opposite side of the room. That's Osama ben Forgotten's plan.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

This entire post is so perpendicular to what I said, that I could almost see it as a deliberate decision to misunderstand.

Not at all actually. It's actually the other side of the coin. You suggest carrots; i say don't forget the stick. As for spending ourselves to death? You might want to add up the defense spending expenses from 1946 to 1989. i can understand the near term alarm at spending beaux coup bucks that anyone would agree could be spent in better places on better things. It's the nature of the beast, however, and last i checked, we didn't go looking for trouble. It came to us.