You are really blowing up about nothing. I'd point out that you throw the word "fascist" around, which doesn't always apply to a "right winger", in fact it rarely if ever does. Go fetch the definition of a fascist.
Now a *Marxist* is a pretty common term. If you believe that the proletariate needs to rise up and take control of that owned by the bourgeoisie (missile defense), which you have obviously stated, then you, sir, are a marxist. A more moderate term would be "socialist", but I think you are just as likely to blow up at that.
This from a non-anonymous poster. I have to create a new account every week though because my opinions usually don't go over well. I'm sure you can understand why Anonymous Coward posts as anonymous.
Heh, these benevolent left wingers bug me. Listen to yourself man. Body armor? Why? I can defeat you with your own argument. Body armor is useless when you're dealing with roadside bombs and high power armor piercing bullets.
Your moral absolutism is worse than any American religion's. All over the bible you find cases of the good guy killing the bad guy in the name of God, for the good of the people. You also find stories where Jesus advocated a peaceful solution. The point is there is no one solution. When there is a fire raging in another country, you're concerned that our government isn't subsidizing the latest wireless technology, or that the rich are becoming too rich, or that corporations get too many benefits, but you can't complain that we aren't able to destroy a rogue nations nuclear enrichment reactor at the click of a button because we can already do that. But no, you wouldn't complain about that because you think Iran will fix itself. In an ideal world, we would not need an army, but this is not a perfect world.
In the same post, you denigrate any funding of "the killing machine", but then you advocate spending $85 on covert operations to hunt and kill terrorists in another country, who we are allied with, without any authorization from them.
There are always people waiting around telling you you're going to fail. I argued with one last week. I told him someday I will be a millionaire, and he told me I was going to fail (mainly because of George Bush). Now he can sit around and wait for me to fail, and if I do, he can rub it in my face and feel all good about himself. Those same scientists told us we couldn't land on the moon, and that we were wasting there money, and they sat by and waited for the space program to fail. They crossed their fingers and wrote their novels about how they knew all along that we would fail, and when we succeeded, they went back into their caves and sat waiting for the next optimist to come along. Not only did the space program *not* fail, but when the Apollo 13 crew and support staff looked failure in the face, they rose to the challenge and overcame it. That's the definition of a hero. We're counting on the hero's to come through, the determined engineers, the optimists. Now sit there and tell me we're gonna fail, and that we're less safe, and call it "science".
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You are really blowing up about nothing. I'd point out that you throw the word "fascist" around, which doesn't always apply to a "right winger", in fact it rarely if ever does. Go fetch the definition of a fascist.
Now a *Marxist* is a pretty common term. If you believe that the proletariate needs to rise up and take control of that owned by the bourgeoisie (missile defense), which you have obviously stated, then you, sir, are a marxist. A more moderate term would be "socialist", but I think you are just as likely to blow up at that.
This from a non-anonymous poster. I have to create a new account every week though because my opinions usually don't go over well. I'm sure you can understand why Anonymous Coward posts as anonymous.
Heh, these benevolent left wingers bug me. Listen to yourself man. Body armor? Why? I can defeat you with your own argument. Body armor is useless when you're dealing with roadside bombs and high power armor piercing bullets.
Your moral absolutism is worse than any American religion's. All over the bible you find cases of the good guy killing the bad guy in the name of God, for the good of the people. You also find stories where Jesus advocated a peaceful solution. The point is there is no one solution. When there is a fire raging in another country, you're concerned that our government isn't subsidizing the latest wireless technology, or that the rich are becoming too rich, or that corporations get too many benefits, but you can't complain that we aren't able to destroy a rogue nations nuclear enrichment reactor at the click of a button because we can already do that. But no, you wouldn't complain about that because you think Iran will fix itself. In an ideal world, we would not need an army, but this is not a perfect world.
In the same post, you denigrate any funding of "the killing machine", but then you advocate spending $85 on covert operations to hunt and kill terrorists in another country, who we are allied with, without any authorization from them.
The $100B we spent on star wars was what put the USSR in the crapper. Look what they tried to beat us with!
There are always people waiting around telling you you're going to fail. I argued with one last week. I told him someday I will be a millionaire, and he told me I was going to fail (mainly because of George Bush). Now he can sit around and wait for me to fail, and if I do, he can rub it in my face and feel all good about himself. Those same scientists told us we couldn't land on the moon, and that we were wasting there money, and they sat by and waited for the space program to fail. They crossed their fingers and wrote their novels about how they knew all along that we would fail, and when we succeeded, they went back into their caves and sat waiting for the next optimist to come along. Not only did the space program *not* fail, but when the Apollo 13 crew and support staff looked failure in the face, they rose to the challenge and overcame it. That's the definition of a hero. We're counting on the hero's to come through, the determined engineers, the optimists. Now sit there and tell me we're gonna fail, and that we're less safe, and call it "science".