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Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet
Ponca City, We Love You writes "America's entire B-2 stealth bomber fleet, which has played a crucial part in all major US conflicts since 1989, has been grounded after one of the jets crashed near a military base in Guam. The crash — the first involving the B-2 — was the most expensive single aircraft accident in history. (The planes cost $1.2B each.) Officials assume the crash was caused by either mechanical failure or human error, but have grounded all B-2s to ensure there is not some fundamental fault developing in the 21-strong fleet. The crash occurred Saturday morning local time as the B-2 was taking off from Andersen Air Force base on Guam, a US territory south of Japan. An Air Force spokesman said, 'The cause of crash is unknown, pending an investigation. The pilots had ejected safely — no serious injuries. One is mobile, one is still in the hospital under observation.'"
I find it amazing that people are whining about military spending in the US. Especially people in Europe. When the next Hitler or Stalin comes, I doubt very seriously you will be whining about all that military spending when the B3 bombers and the American soldiers are again saving your homeland because your countries REFUSE to provide for their own common defense. How many times do we need to see this recur before it can pierce this whiny ideology.
Perhaps you should try being funny. Humor usually requires that.
Or more plainly, funny to you ain't necssarily funny to anyone else. You should know that if you come here often.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
There is a difference between "every ideology is equally true" and "every ideology is equally (morally) right". I follow enlightenment values and have a liberal political and social outlook. I morally disagree with the stoning of homosexuals, suicide bombings and the repression of women. The 'Postmodern' approach recognises that both of these value-systems are merely human constructions. It encourages people to not make judgements while analysing the system. Personal moral judgement is left to the individual.
Bull. First, the US is not an empire; it's a standard for freedom in the world. (At least it was before socialism took hold.) Second, military spending is not an economic burden. The largest black hole of gov't spending (and growing out of control) is entitlement programs--stealing money from productive people through punitive taxation and giving it to unproductive people. The US gov't wouldn't have any problem increasing military spending if it stuck to its job (protecting people, property, and liberty as the Founders intended) and got out of the business of robbing some citizens on behalf of other citizens.