LPS5,
Re: Still another is that all human beings are competitive, vicious animals...whether driven by the enticements of material wealth or superstition...
You've obviously spent too much time on Wall Street. You seem to forget that this great nation was founded in the Age of Enlightenment when men of great intelligence crafted a system of government that has withstood the test of time, and was based on principles, laws and some sense of decency and fairness. Today, this system is now being cruelly tested by a rapacious breed of pirates who have more in common with the "competitive, vicious animals" of the 13th Century than with the 18th Century.
It is as if Antonin Scalia, the Bushes, Cheney, Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al have the souls of craven despots of the age of rampage, while accessing the greatest horde of military hardware the world has ever been forced to endure.
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Re: RGD: "The U.S. government is orders-of-magnitude more effective at terrorizing...populations than Bin Laden could ever hope to be."
LPS5: "Even though that's an opinion stated as fact - and a viewpoint easily adopted tens or hundreds of miles away from anything that would ever be considered a probable terrorist target - I tend to agree."
It is a simple matter of budgets. The U.S. spends more on warfighting and aggression than the next 25 nations combined! Of course we are the world's most effective terrorist. The Department of Death can't waste all the money in secret siphonings of the Treasury. Though they're extremely good at it. $2.3 Trillion (with a T) unaccounted for since 1947. That's a track record that makes Kenny Boy Lay envious and Bernie Ebbers jealous as all git out. |
