JoeB131
Diamond Member
It's sad to see some of the short-sighted idiots here who would succumb to the Siren song of isolationism with all its false promises of security and prosperity. You'd be dashed upon the rocks of reality if your betters didn't actually make the right decisions for you.
Who here thinks the US and the rest of the world would be just as free, secure, and prosperous if vital shipping lanes in SEA and the Middle East were closed off or held at ransom? If not the US, but an ambitious totalitarian regime with a long memory and deep grudges, held sway over all real and potential trade into and out of East Asia? If South America and Africa became essentially vassal states of that same regime?
Who here thinks it's wise to chuckle at a cute little baby tiger while it sits outside your door chomping on raw meat and growing longer and sharper teeth and claws everyday?
Who is STILL too fucking stupid to learn from history that ignoring tomorrow's problem today abso-fucking-lutely guarantees tomorrow's problem will be 100 times worse?
And here's the big question: How many of you who despise America - lefty fools in America, and bitter representatives of relatively insignificant nations - think your lives would be better off if you replaced what you consider the 'big-bad' US with a 'big-bad' China? I am personally very fond of the Chinese people and culture, but that is a very easy question.
Again, the only reason why China is a threat to anyone right now is because the people you suck up to made them one. they are the ones who stripped America's industrial might in the quest for the quick buck. So now China is going to surpass us in manufacturing, and you're ringing your hands in that they are using some of that money to build warships that are about 30 years behind ours technologically.
In short, if there's a tiger out there, it's because Taiwan and big multi-national corporations fed it.
Fact is, military power is a coin of lesser value, mostly because fighting a war is a bankrupting excercise.
If the Middle East got cut off, maybe we'd actually do what we SHOULD have done 40 years ago- find alternatives to gasoline. You know, the first time they pulled this shit after the Yom Kippur War.
So, yes, defense of America- absolutely.
Defense of wealthy companies. Fuck them.