How many think that the troops are really fighting for our freedom?

[Forever_frost]

The dollar cost of doing that would be far less than operating 900 bases around the world and putting troop on the ground in endless wars.
I think we may have a sub or 2 of our own somewhere and I have worked on the ports so I am aware of the potential for importing weapons. That potential would go way down once the US stopped dictating what other sovereign could and can’t do.
I would defend this soil and my family to my last breath from a foreign invader, even one standing in the road with a shovel in his hands.

What endless war? Didn't you hear? They're over. Back up your statement with numbers. Define "potential would go way down." Where do you draw your information and expertise from?

[cyclonescott]

What was the last decade were there weren’t troops on the ground in some foreign country? It was before you or I was born. Go back and read what the founding fathers had to say about foreign entanglements. If you can’t see that maintaining our troops at home is more cost effective than having them abroad and paying to rebuild infrastructure in some other country keeps us from focusing on our own then you need to take economics 101.

[cyclonescott]

What endless war? Didn't you hear? They're over. Back up your statement with numbers. Define "potential would go way down." Where do you draw your information and expertise from?

For someone who preaches the constitution this and the constitution that, bill of rights this bill of rights that. You seem to forget what inalienable rights are. Our rights are not given to us by a piece of paper or a government. We our born with these rights whether you believe in a god or not. All people over the world are born with them. So if you have the right to defend yourself, so does a person in Iraq, Iran or the USA. Most people aren’t going to just randomly attack someone, they attack when they are threatened. The US telling sovereign nation how to conduct their business with the THREAT of force makes them want to defend themselves.

[YALE]

For someone who preaches the constitution this and the constitution that, bill of rights this bill of rights that. You seem to forget what inalienable rights are. Our rights are not given to us by a piece of paper or a government. We our born with these rights whether you believe in a god or not. All people over the world are born with them. So if you have the right to defend yourself, so does a person in Iraq, Iran or the USA. Most people aren’t going to just randomly attack someone, they attack when they are threatened. The US telling sovereign nation how to conduct their business with the THREAT of force makes them want to defend themselves.

I generally view your posts as an attack on my eyeballs. I guess I better defend myself.

[cyclonescott]

I generally view your posts as an attack on my eyeballs. I guess I better defend myself.

I am game.

[lincolnboy]

plymouth rock didnt land on us.....

[YALE]

I am game.

Nerf guns at dawn?

[cyclonescott]

Nerf guns at dawn?

Old school. Swords.

[YALE]

Old school. Swords.

I'll be waiting!

[lincolnboy]

dfwm pain(t)ball games,

[Forever_frost]

For someone who preaches the constitution this and the constitution that, bill of rights this bill of rights that. You seem to forget what inalienable rights are. Our rights are not given to us by a piece of paper or a government. We our born with these rights whether you believe in a god or not. All people over the world are born with them. So if you have the right to defend yourself, so does a person in Iraq, Iran or the USA. Most people aren’t going to just randomly attack someone, they attack when they are threatened. The US telling sovereign nation how to conduct their business with the THREAT of force makes them want to defend themselves.

Oh I understand inalienable rights. We are born with them and they are ours from birth. Problem is, people willingly give them up in exchange for the promise of security. Most people aren't going to randomly attack someone? Tell ISIS that. They just beheaded a cop and tweeted it out under the heading of World Cup 2014

[matts5.0]

Oh I understand inalienable rights. We are born with them and they are ours from birth. Problem is, people willingly give them up in exchange for the promise of security. Most people aren't going to randomly attack someone? Tell ISIS that. They just beheaded a cop and tweeted it out under the heading of World Cup 2014

They did it because they are evil and hate our freedom!

[cyclonescott]

How many people did US soldiers shoot in Iraq? How many women and children were killed by US bombs? How many women were raped by US soldiers In Iraq? How many people were killed from chemical weapons supplied to Saddam by the US? How many people were killed by weapons supplied by the US? How many children starved from sanctions imposed by the US? How many people died because we destroyed their water treatment facilities?

When you decimate a country it is the savages that tend to rise up and take power.

[YALE]

You do realize a decimation is the removal of one tenth of a whole, right? That's not nearly enough.

[Forever_frost]

They did it because they are evil and hate our freedom!

Or, they are animals that even the Taliban, Al queda and Iran are saying "Fuck, they're animals. We better kill them."