-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 6:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: American Intelligence
On 7/4/2014 5:52 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > Chris, nobody in power shares my love for global war, as you put it, > but I am very logical in noting the decline of American effectiveness, > and prowess. The world is soon becoming, a No Country for Old Men sort > of place, thats less free and more dangerous. A weakend US now invites attack, but theres nothing to be done, as individuals but wait. > Americans are used to stumbling along until something happens, and > this is the period we're now in. Supporting the policies and attitude > of an insousuant, presidency, is not the way to go now, but you've expressed otherwise. And you'd like to bring back Shrub and the neo-cons because their show of American strength in Afghanistan and Iraq did so much to strengthen the U.S. Just like Viet Nam did a generation earlier. When one considers the lost opportunity cost of the trillions of dollars of indebtedness and loss of treasure that the two neocon imperial follies will cost the US over the last and the next few decades it is staggering. A staggering sum. If that sum had been spent on instead, modernizing (and safe proofing) the US grid and building out a US domestic solar/wind generation infrastructure, this country would have been far stronger and better future proofed than we currently are. Almost any expenditure of that money would have been better than, burning it up in the neocons delusional "they will welcome us with flowers" wars. And as you mentioned in Vietnam a generation earlier. Chris PS Naturally for some special interests war is exceedingly profitable; hence the historical appetite for war. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
