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Re:sanctions are inevitable

2007-06-06 10:52:40

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by LynnwoodRooster (966895) on Sunday May 27 2007, @06:06PM (#19295049)

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Repaid only after heavy reductions in the amount of the loans, mind you...

France was wonderful in helping the US Revolution. I'd love to thank that

government for its assistance, but seeing as it was overthrown and the monarch

beheaded just a few years after our founding, it's a bit difficult to do so.

And of course, French hate it if you point out the last war they won was when

they had a king, supporting a renegade group on another continent...

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Re:sanctions are inevitable by LynnwoodRooster (Score:1)

Re:sanctions are inevitable

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by IdleTime (561841) on Sunday May 27 2007, @07:20PM (#19295551)

Why is winning wars important to you?

I find it barbaric to measure a countrys worth based on wars they have won. I

personally base a countrys worth on what they offer the citizens and how little

crime, esp violent crime the country has, access to health care, access to

higher education, How they punish their own citizens etc. And when it comes to

all of those, USA is pretty far down on any lists. It looks more like a banana

republic than a 1st world country and yes, I have lived and worked here for

over a decade and I have lived and worked in several other countries too. If I

wasn't white with a good education from a top 50 university working in a 6

figure job and living in a climatically great area, I would not have been here.

I'm not French either, but when you use the French revolution against them, it

is too dumb to take seriously. USA has not exactly been stellar when it comes

to winning wars alone in the past either and it certainly have had zero luck in

Iraq and Afghanistan, mostly because your leaders have zero clue about how to

handle them. You have basically been shown that the US military machine is a

waste of money and it will not be able to achieve anything in the world we

currently live in. So, continue to spend a good portion of your tax money on

the military, err on the fat cats running the armament industry. USA is slowly

becoming a 3rd world society with a 1st world economy/military.