12-12-2021, 08:16 AM
Isn't it interesting: Where you are becoming less anti-military, I am becoming less pro-military - for two reasons: First, there is no fiscal, or moral, justification for spending $1.4 trillion to "defend ourselves" against the Irans of this world, when in 1969 we spent a mere $70 billion to defend ourselves against the Soviet Union; and second, think of all the roads, bridges, and high-speed rail we could build if we "only" cut our annual military budget to $514 billion (the $70 billion of 1969 adjusted for inflation) - and considering the much lesser threat posed by Iran etc. (and any total war vs. either Russia or China will result in M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction).
And frankly, what Russia may or may not do in Ukraine - or what China may or may not do in Taiwan - is none of our God damn business. How would we like it if Moscow and/or Beijing were to accuse us of committing "imperialism" in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands (even if we are doing exactly that)?
And frankly, what Russia may or may not do in Ukraine - or what China may or may not do in Taiwan - is none of our God damn business. How would we like it if Moscow and/or Beijing were to accuse us of committing "imperialism" in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands (even if we are doing exactly that)?
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892