Five Nato states to urge removal of US nuclear arms in Europe
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There are plenty people in continental Europe and elsewhere around the globe who would like to see all traces of American military return to American soil, but they might be the minority as well as suffering short-sightedness. But that would make your foes and potential foes most happy.
If an enemy force thinks that they will fill in the vacuum and launch a campaign of command & conquer, then there would be a real war. Unlike the "war" we are "fighting" in the middle east, we would declare war on the country responsible, and strike them down hard, relentlessly slaughtering and destroying non-stop until they surrender. That is the way a war should be.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/22/nato-states-us-nuclear-arms-europe[^] Watch the neoconservatives in the United States go apeshit, while everyone else in the states will either not give a damn or be extremely happy.
With us there what does NATO need troops for? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_troops[^] Most of Europe has very little by way of military now. They wouldn't know what to do if China or Russia did something. It's like the movie title "Team America World Police".
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
But that would make your foes and potential foes most happy.
How is that going to create potential foes? Because I'm one that would be for a move to have all of the soldiers all around the world to come back home. That would create a much stronger national defense.
Potential foes - that suggests a future foe on unknown ability and unknown location. Removing your armed forces from the world outside of America will - perhaps - permit regimes to become insecure and unstable and prime for takeover, with a policy that could be hostile towards that which America stands for, and such hostilities might not be restricted to diplomatic and verbal attacks. Around the globe, the United States military is a modifying influence. If all of the United States military returned to American soil, what are the odds that insecurity will be felt in Washington and other places within the USA just because of the overwhelming numbers that will be there. Most likely some will be made redundant - as in surplus to requirements. But your mate, Henize, is on record in this very forum of fearing what a large military force might be required to do on American soil to American citizens. A stronger national defense - no doubt - but it don't arf scare Henize.
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If an enemy force thinks that they will fill in the vacuum and launch a campaign of command & conquer, then there would be a real war. Unlike the "war" we are "fighting" in the middle east, we would declare war on the country responsible, and strike them down hard, relentlessly slaughtering and destroying non-stop until they surrender. That is the way a war should be.
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If you surrender ground by returning your armed forces to American soil, you have effectively announced you no longer are interested in that part of the world you have vacated. Then you have forfeited your rights to have any say in who takes that place - friend or foe.
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If you surrender ground by returning your armed forces to American soil, you have effectively announced you no longer are interested in that part of the world you have vacated. Then you have forfeited your rights to have any say in who takes that place - friend or foe.
Yes, but the point of our military is to protect our property and liberties, not Europe's or Korean's.
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Yes, but the point of our military is to protect our property and liberties, not Europe's or Korean's.
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There is a very sound argument that if you have to fight wars then its better to fight them on someone elses property, and perferably before they get too big
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/22/nato-states-us-nuclear-arms-europe[^] Watch the neoconservatives in the United States go apeshit, while everyone else in the states will either not give a damn or be extremely happy.
Please note that UK is not on that list, and never would be. Whenever USA needs a friend, we are there. USA came to our aid in WWii (late but welcome :) ).
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There is a very sound argument that if you have to fight wars then its better to fight them on someone elses property, and perferably before they get too big
Smile and the world smiles withyou, laugh and they think you are a nutter
It is unsustainable to fight preemptive wars and occupy the entire globe. There is a simple process to war. It goes like this: 1.) Country commits an act of war against us. 2.) We declare war on that country. 3.) We relentlessly slaughter them on their own lands, and destroy their infrastructure while keeping them as far away from our lands as possible. 4.) If not surrender repeat step 3. 5.) After surrender, negotiate terms.
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It is unsustainable to fight preemptive wars and occupy the entire globe. There is a simple process to war. It goes like this: 1.) Country commits an act of war against us. 2.) We declare war on that country. 3.) We relentlessly slaughter them on their own lands, and destroy their infrastructure while keeping them as far away from our lands as possible. 4.) If not surrender repeat step 3. 5.) After surrender, negotiate terms.
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
1.) Country commits an act of war against us.
mmm lets take this, 20th century (working backwards) Afganistan - no act of war against the US Iraq - no act of war against the US Grenada - no act of war against the US Vietnam - no act of war against the US Korea - no act of war against the US WW2 - japan - ok will give you this one ww2 - germany ok this too ww1 - no act of war against the US Dominican Republic - no act of war against the US Mexican Revolution- no act of war against the US Haiti - no act of war against the US Cuba - no act of war against the US Guatemalan- no act of war against the US Honduras - no act of war against the US First Panama - no act of war against the US Nicaragua- no act of war against the US so just last century the facts disprove you
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Please note that UK is not on that list, and never would be. Whenever USA needs a friend, we are there. USA came to our aid in WWii (late but welcome :) ).
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Dalek Dave wrote:
USA came to our aid in WWii
They didn't. Their sole motivation was and is self-interest. (As is every other government's.)
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We would have been there earlier, if not for the self-centric isolationist agenda you see spouted by CSS. That was our policy, more or less, until Japan woke us up with a kick to the naval rear end. Now, we're being very sure not to make that mistake again. I think WW2 perfectly illustrates the argument against isolationism... Even if a country does not directly attack us, an unchecked war will eventually affect everyone. If we had stepped into WW2 earlier, I bet a lot of lives could have been saved, including (But obviously not limited to) all of the AMERICAN lives lost at Pearl Harbor. And if Japan hadn't screwed up by waking the sleeping lion, as they say, the Nazis may well have taken over Europe, expanded for a while (Hey, none of OUR business, right?), and eventually come at us in force. Better to stop these things as early as possible. (No offense intended to the Europeans... You guys put up a hell of a fight and took a lot of punishment. We just tipped the scales.)
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
1.) Country commits an act of war against us.
mmm lets take this, 20th century (working backwards) Afganistan - no act of war against the US Iraq - no act of war against the US Grenada - no act of war against the US Vietnam - no act of war against the US Korea - no act of war against the US WW2 - japan - ok will give you this one ww2 - germany ok this too ww1 - no act of war against the US Dominican Republic - no act of war against the US Mexican Revolution- no act of war against the US Haiti - no act of war against the US Cuba - no act of war against the US Guatemalan- no act of war against the US Honduras - no act of war against the US First Panama - no act of war against the US Nicaragua- no act of war against the US so just last century the facts disprove you
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You moron. I was saying how it is supposed to be, not how it criminally is today.
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If an enemy force thinks that they will fill in the vacuum and launch a campaign of command & conquer, then there would be a real war. Unlike the "war" we are "fighting" in the middle east, we would declare war on the country responsible, and strike them down hard, relentlessly slaughtering and destroying non-stop until they surrender. That is the way a war should be.
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Apart from the obvious bloodlust, which is obviously compensation for your own failed life, might I ask how you'd pay for this alleged war ? The US is currently a banana republic as far as I can see.
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You moron. I was saying how it is supposed to be, not how it criminally is today.
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Do you want to look at the 19th? because that works out even worse for you unprovoced attacks on other countries and losing too. basically you have a rose tinted view of what the US was, maybe you should actually look at what things were like during your perfect period, I think you will be horrified as to how little rights the average citizen actually had just because I disagree I am a moron eh? maybe if you put thought into your posts instead of just mindless rants than I might take you seriously, but from reading your posts I doubt your IQ would make a decent basketball score.
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Apart from the obvious bloodlust, which is obviously compensation for your own failed life, might I ask how you'd pay for this alleged war ? The US is currently a banana republic as far as I can see.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
What the hell are you talking about? I was not talking about anything specific you dumbfuck.
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Do you want to look at the 19th? because that works out even worse for you unprovoced attacks on other countries and losing too. basically you have a rose tinted view of what the US was, maybe you should actually look at what things were like during your perfect period, I think you will be horrified as to how little rights the average citizen actually had just because I disagree I am a moron eh? maybe if you put thought into your posts instead of just mindless rants than I might take you seriously, but from reading your posts I doubt your IQ would make a decent basketball score.
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You don't even know what the fuck I am talking about. I was talking about how it is supposed to be, not how it is.
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You don't even know what the fuck I am talking about. I was talking about how it is supposed to be, not how it is.
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No it would seem that its you that doesnt know what your talking about, you seem to think that somehow reverting to a fail system will fix everything despite history saying it doesnt work
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Apart from the obvious bloodlust, which is obviously compensation for your own failed life, might I ask how you'd pay for this alleged war ? The US is currently a banana republic as far as I can see.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Is it me or has his langauge got significantly worse? what do you think, has he run out of medication or have they changed it and its not working very well?
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Yes, but the point of our military is to protect our property and liberties, not Europe's or Korean's.
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
the point of our military is to protect our property and liberties
Of course. But those assets located in other countries and territories not owned by (as in "leased" to) the United States, once you decide to leave, you will create a vacuum. That vacuum sooner or later will get occupied, not necessarily by somebody else's armed forces, but it could just be that. And once you leave such areas you no longer have claim to those assets (the air base, the naval dockyard, the army base). An example ... The British Territory of Diego Garcia (in the Indian Ocean), if your United States Air Force chose to depart that island, what rights would you have if Britain then leased the base to another country, or Britain re-occupied the base with its own armed forces, of if Britain just returned it to its original human inhabitants, or if Britain washed it hands of it completely. Thus, you would no longer have use or claim to the land and buildings located at that air base. A vacuum would thus exist. And this vacuum might be filled by either friendly or hostile-to-America forces. What could you do ... Legally nothing ... The air base would be no longer yours to do whatever with.
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No it would seem that its you that doesnt know what your talking about, you seem to think that somehow reverting to a fail system will fix everything despite history saying it doesnt work
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Alex hogarth wrote:
history saying it doesnt work
It's a myth. Your failed strategies have results such as the War on Drugs, War on Terror, and War on Poverty (subsidizing failure).
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