Daniel wrote:Look at the response to WikiLeaks in Israel in comparison to the response in The West and the US and A. Israel has said (in the popular press) "Big deal, nothing new here...". Their journalists and government spokesmen attribute this to their application of the philosophy of diplomatic transparency and keeping their secrets really, really, really secret.
And your point is? So the USA is the only country in the world not allowed to keep it's secrets secret? Julian Assange is no hero, he is only doing what he is doing to embarrass the USA and see it diminished. And Israel doesn't have military scattered all across the globe, so yeah it would be easier for them to keep state secrets.
Daniel wrote:What branch of the military did you serve in, sir?
Navy.
Daniel wrote:So what justification is there for conscripting a young man from San Antonio, under the ultimate threat of death, to go and 'defend' Chinese/Koreans/Indonesians/French who won't even defend themselves, all for the stratospheric pay of $33/month?
It's called War. Sooner or later we would have been dragged into it and if you are referring to the WWII mandatory draft, there was no death penalty for not serving during WWII, that's an exaggeration. There was a death penalty for desertion and aiding the enemy, but not for refusing to serve. Currently we have an All Volunteer Armed Forces.
Daniel wrote:Just as we (round-eyed-big-nosed-smelly-barbarians) consider ourselves to be the superior race. The Japs were not marauding their way across Asia for 'revenge', they were after OIL! (Sound familiar?)
Our rallying cry was "Remember Pearl Harbor!" Now, I ask you: "Who was out for revenge?"
Are you saying you think you're superior because of your race? I'm not caucasian by the way if that is what you meant. I believe there is only one race, the human race.
The Japanese were marauding all across Asia and the Pacific taking land, oil, people, natural resources that the Japanese didn't have on their mainland, anything they wanted. Why do you think they were called
Imperial Japan? Come on man, give me a break with that liberal propaganda trash about the USA going to war for oil. If we had gone to war for oil we would have gotten the oil. So by your reasoning it was okay for Japan to maraud across China for oil just as long as it wasn't for revenge. If anybody was after oil it was Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait. Daniel, seriously, look into what happened prior to our involvement in WWII. No joke, look into it. It's all over youtube, wikipedia, and for those of us who remember the history books during High School.
You might even be surprised to know that the Chinese Muslims called the Uighurs helped China fight the Japanese.
You might even be further surprised that the USA was helping the Chinese prior to WWII with ammo, food, medicine, training to help the "civilians" beat back the Japanese Army who were purposefully bombing cities and civilians in revenge for the Chinese Army daring to defend their home turf. The Japanese were out for revenge against the USA for our part in helping China, etc. to stop the Japanese imperialistic tendencies. And I guess getting our ships, planes, bases, military and civilians bombed in Pearl Harbor WASN'T justification enough by itself?
So how does that tie in that the USA was trumpheting it's round-eyed-big-nosed-smelly-barbarians superior race card by helping an inferior race to defend against another race whose religion taught them that they were indeed a Master race (sound familiar, i.e. Islam). We also had military training for the Chinese right here on American soil to train them as pilots to help fight off the Japanese Zeros.
Daniel wrote:And exactly what Scriptural principle justifies the US and A waging aggressive war against people living in the sandbox?
If you want to dispose of "Sadam", bribe one of his Colonel's to stick a knife between his ribs. Do not send 5,000+ boys from San Antonio to their death to do it!
None. It's called National Security. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't fault the USA for not following scripture and then expect it to follow scripture because you know our government doesn't work like that. Since we are stuck on this miserable rock called planet earth, for me, I'd rather deal with reality as is instead of some hippie fantasy that the USA should just lay down it's arms and let everyone walk all over us.
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