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Originally Posted by Amnell
The military has the lowest entrance requirements of any full-time occupation, it's bound to get some people who are a little meh.
We trained and armed Bin Laden during the Russo-Afghan war, as I recall.
We were at odds with Russia ideologically. Who provoked who is probably impossible to really say.
North Korea invaded South Korea. We had little to do with it. The only thing we are at fault for there is allowing Russia to take over North Korea in the first place and establish a communist system.
Every nation has a lot of wars sometime in their history -_- . Granted, our leaders have been a bit trigger happy in the last thirty years (boys with toys :P ) .
We created the A-Bomb and with it Nuclear power, radiation therapy for cancer patients, started a whole new field of science....
What multi-ethnic country doesn't have racism/hate? What country doesn't have poverty?
I wasn't going to say it was anybody's fault -_- .
Ramones, that little half-rhyme is about as idealistic as it gets. Don't get me wrong; I fully believe that the government governs with the consent of the governed. However, I can't think of a single society in all the history that I have yet learned where this, though true, was realized and actualized full-time by the people. There've been revolutions over this concept, but new governments that come from these revolutions are often quick to forget why they revolted in the first place (Even George Washington, it is said, was told by several of his advisors that he could take over the government and have all the power for himself--not even a year after we'd won our independence from Britain because we didn't want to be stuck in that monarchy/dictatorship). In other words, people will think about this and act on it briefly, but only briefly.
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i agree with you but at the time of communism america could live and let live. they were giving speeches especially in the vietnam war that they were fighting communism only because russian and i think china were converting countries to communism. they couldnt just let them be and act like it was our problem too.