Is America on the path to permanent war?

[Pro-Canadiana]

Is America on the path to 'permanent war'? - CNN.com


"It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people," said Sen. J. William Fulbright, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in 1966 as the Vietnam War escalated.



courtesy of CNN

 

[uscitizen]

Sadly it does appear to be the case.

 

[R.C. Christian]

CNN is a useless news source, but yes.

 

[loosecannon]

or no.

 

[Pro-Canadiana]

i agree with you, but i also agree with the article.

 

[Sallow]

Afghanistan and Iraq.

That has to be some kind of record.

 

[uscitizen]

Isn't it about time to invade Nicaragua again?

 

[shintao]

Is America on the path to 'permanent war'? - CNN.com


"It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people," said Sen. J. William Fulbright, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in 1966 as the Vietnam War escalated.



courtesy of CNN

It should have been a foregone conclusion when Bush set the bar at global terrorism, then spent 7 years trying to win a war against old ladies with wash pans and kids throwing rocks.

 

[theHawk]

We're on a path to a permenant war because Islam is at war with us.

 

[uscitizen]

Ahh the old endless cycle thing.

 

[Sallow]

We're on a path to a permenant war because Islam is at war with us.

Really?

What was the excuse with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Panama and Grenada?

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

As Randolph Bourne said, war is the health of the state.

 

[theHawk]

We're on a path to a permenant war because Islam is at war with us.

Really?

What was the excuse with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Panama and Grenada?

That was communism. But you bring up a good point. Most likely we will always be at war with either Islamofacsists or communists.

 

[Sallow]

We're on a path to a permenant war because Islam is at war with us.

Really?

What was the excuse with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Panama and Grenada?

That was communism. But you bring up a good point. Most likely we will always be at war with either Islamofacsists or communists.

And the Balkans?



Why don't ya just admit that once a hat drops..the US sends troops.

 

[Douger]

Isn't it about time to invade Nicaragua again?

Why ? Iran ran out of guns again ?

 

[uscitizen]

Isn't it about time to invade Nicaragua again?

Why ? Iran ran out of guns again ?

Naah a shortage of Cocane here.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

We're on a path to a permenant war because Islam is at war with us.

Really?

What was the excuse with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Panama and Grenada?

That was communism. But you bring up a good point. Most likely we will always be at war with either Islamofacsists or communists.

Or some other boogeyman dreamed up by the government.

 

[shintao]

We're on a path to a permenant war because Islam is at war with us.

That is as good a reason as any. It is good to remember why we are at war, for the reason often changes along the way.


Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those reds —
The only good commie is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Huh!

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

 

[shintao]

Really?

What was the excuse with Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Panama and Grenada?

That was communism. But you bring up a good point. Most likely we will always be at war with either Islamofacsists or communists.

Or some other boogeyman dreamed up by the government.

Probably N. Korea before the end of the year. This would make a good board game to sell at xmas.

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Earlier this week, North Korea engaged South Korea in a two-minute artillery attack along the Yeonpyeong, a strip of several tiny, sparsely populated islands nestled in the Pacific Ocean roughly seven miles off the coast of North Korea. There, hundreds of fishermen live alongside the roughly 1,000 South Korean sailors who found themselves under attack, according to news reports. Two civilians are said to have died in the barrage.

As the USS George Washington, an American warship, rushes to the seas around Korea in aid of its ally, South Korea, North Korea has ramped up the rhetoric, officials reportedly saying the country is at the verge of a war.

The fear, of course, is that a dispute over land that's seemingly insignificant will grow into a larger conflict that drags in the United States and involves other countries, such as powerhouse China, which is separated from the Korean peninsula by a river in the north.

 

[kyzr]

Its actually better to have the US be the world's cop than to let another Hitler evolve and cause a WW3. If anyone studies Nostradamus, they don't call it "gloom & doom" for nothing...the longer we have world peace w/o another world war the better our chances of actual survival.