Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Moderate Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (716)	4/26/2003 10:55:15 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

<<If I had my way, we would bring ALL our troops home. No foreign based troops. Let the rest of the world take care of itself. Use our military to guard out borders and defend outselves. Period.>> Jeeesus Keerist, why did it take all these years for me and you to agree on something... <g> .. For, I think isolationism is the best of all, for all, if all is learn to: "Live and let live" But to reach that level, We have to learn OF all of others... And from that.. We LEARN "to live and let live, because of their differences... Right now, we are learning of more cultures, we might visit.. m

To: The Philosopher who wrote (716)	4/27/2003 9:58:46 AM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Christopher, I have some of these same thoughts, believe it or not. Some friends and I were talking - and we wondered if only WWII could be thought of as a legitimate use of force by the US in the last century.. How would we, and the world, be different, if we had not intervened in Vietnam, Korea, the Gulf, etc. (Or helped overthrow such countries as Iran and Chile..) Now, the Cold War was different too, and we had a threat to our existence there also.. I also agree that when attacked, we should be ruthless. Many pure liberals would likely find my views here surprising. IMO, we did not apply enough force to deal with Al-Qaeda, partly because we were afraid of our own troop losses on the ground, or of offending Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, our two authoritarian buddies now. t