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Poverty in the US
"Tom Gardner" wrote:
I know that you may think I'd be the LAST person to say this, but...The war should have been a pay-as-you-go expense. The American people would have been directly involved via their pocketbooks and it would have changed the way the war was fought. They would have demanded overwhelming force bordering on unrestrained terror to make a quick end. Yes, there should have been a sense of shared struggle but I wonder if the Bush administration correctly figured we don't have the charactor to give up a big screen purchase in order to free nations. Rip Pat Tillman, a man that did have charactor. Wes |
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"Wes" wrote in message ... "Tom Gardner" wrote: I know that you may think I'd be the LAST person to say this, but...The war should have been a pay-as-you-go expense. The American people would have been directly involved via their pocketbooks and it would have changed the way the war was fought. They would have demanded overwhelming force bordering on unrestrained terror to make a quick end. Yes, there should have been a sense of shared struggle but I wonder if the Bush administration correctly figured we don't have the charactor to give up a big screen purchase in order to free nations. Rip Pat Tillman, a man that did have charactor. Wes Did you know him? Or are you basing the assertion that he had character simply because he joined the military? I didn't know that being in the military meant a person had any more character or better morals than anyone else. I do know that some people make the mistake of believing that being in the armed forces somehow imbues a man with attributes the rest of us lack. That is an incorrect assumption, by the way. It's like assuming that police officers are better than the rest of us. They're not, neither are soldiers. In my view Tillman was a fool. He got himself killed for nothing, and by our own troops to boot. Hawke |
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"Hawke" wrote: Rip Pat Tillman, a man that did have charactor. Wes Did you know him? Or are you basing the assertion that he had character simply because he joined the military? I didn't know that being in the military meant a person had any more character or better morals than anyone else. I do know that some people make the mistake of believing that being in the armed forces somehow imbues a man with attributes the rest of us lack. That is an incorrect assumption, by the way. It's like assuming that police officers are better than the rest of us. They're not, neither are soldiers. In my view Tillman was a fool. He got himself killed for nothing, and by our own troops to boot. He may have been a fool, but he didn't die for nothing. He taught a lot of kids to not volunteer Free men own guns - www(dot)geocities(dot)com/CapitolHill/5357/ |
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On Feb 29, 6:54*am, nick hull wrote:
In article , *"Hawke" wrote: Rip Pat Tillman, a man that did have charactor. Wes Did you know him? Or are you basing the assertion that he had character simply because he joined the military? I didn't know that being in the military meant a person had any more character or better morals than anyone else. I do know that some people make the mistake of believing that being in the armed forces somehow imbues a man with attributes the rest of us lack. That is an incorrect assumption, by the way. It's like assuming that police officers are better than the rest of us. They're not, neither are soldiers. In my view Tillman was a fool. He got himself killed for nothing, and by our own troops to boot. He may have been a fool, but he didn't die for nothing. *He taught a lot of kids to not volunteer Free men own guns - www(dot)geocities(dot)com/CapitolHill/5357/ Good point. TMT |
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:26:52 -0800, "Hawke"
wrote: snip Rip Pat Tillman, a man that did have charactor. Wes Did you know him? Or are you basing the assertion that he had character simply because he joined the military? I didn't know that being in the military meant a person had any more character or better morals than anyone else. I do know that some people make the mistake of believing that being in the armed forces somehow imbues a man with attributes the rest of us lack. That is an incorrect assumption, by the way. It's like assuming that police officers are better than the rest of us. They're not, neither are soldiers. In my view Tillman was a fool. He got himself killed for nothing, and by our own troops to boot. Hawke ========== How every thin we slice the baloney, Pat Tillman was an increasingly rare bird in that he not only put his money where his mouth was, he also put his ass on the line. The correctness of his assumptions about the world may be open to question, but his actions are not. IMNSHO the critical danger is that when an actual crisis arises [and they always do] that requires people to step forward, there will be no one to do so. This is yet another example of the wisdom contained in the ancient cautionary tale about the little boy that cried "wolf." The United States is also well on its way to destroying its National Guard and Reserve forces, from not only a manpower/morale viewpoint but also from a material standpoint, from rifles to trucks to uniforms and boots, to comm gear. The regular armed forces are scarcely in better shape, and the their families are paying much of the price. Indeed, in many cases the choice resolves to a career in the military or a family. Indeed, the armed forces are now stretched so thin that very expensive mercenary forces such as Blackwater [at 200-400k$ per merc per year] are now required for many duties such as convoy escort and body-guards. Before you use an emergency fund, be it money or other assets, first be sure its an emergency and then have a plan to restore it ASAP. Dissipation of assets as a "cost saving measure" is not a long-term strategy, it is having your head up your a**. Unka' George [George McDuffee] ------------------------------------------- He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625). |
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