You should modify that question:
tack onto the end "......while a democrat was in the White House?"
Otherwise you'll never get a proper answer. (Like there was much danger of that anyway).
Ok, so the US is the most powerful military power on Earth right?
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tack onto the end "......while a democrat was in the White House?"
Otherwise you'll never get a proper answer. (Like there was much danger of that anyway).
Although you will ALWAYS get an answer if you put 'republican' or 'democrat' on the end.
The answer to the arms race question is:
Great Britain.
(Just trying to get me post rate up)
Great Britain.
(Just trying to get me post rate up)
As I said, I was nowhere near.
(Still 3 posts ahead.
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And your post rate is higher than mine. My guess is it's game over!Originally posted by fourgivn1
As I said, I was nowhere near.
(Still 3 posts ahead.
Yes!! I win at something!!Originally posted by fluff
And your post rate is higher than mine. My guess is it's game over!
Actually, I'm going to lunch now, so now's your chance.
I'm fond of the Marshall Plan myself.
Remember that with the uploading of a simple code we can effectively shut down GPS to all but the US military so don't muck around with us. LORAN was shut down years ago.
What have we done wrong?
1992-2000 was pretty bad.
I am mortally ashamed that Clinton pulled out of Somalia when a few people got killed and it became a political liability for him. IMO that was the most rightous use of military force in the last 50 years. We had no interest whatsoever there other than as a humanitiarian effort. I was, for a time, actually very proud of Clinton for sending us in there. Until he backed down, and renderd vain the losses of American lives since the mission was not accomplished. The saddest thing about it is that by doing so he set a precedent for non-involvement in civil wars such as Timor, Rawanda etc where we could have done some real good.
Clintons abject failure to get OBL when he had the chance after the USS Cole was bombed. He could have easilly put a Seal team on the ground or utilized (had he not previously emasculated) a CIA black OP to just make OBL dissapear.
I don't fully understand Viet-Nam, and don't think any of us ever will. But what I do know is that the mission was not accomplished and far far too many Americans died w/o an end result that could help their families justify, to some degree, their loss.
I have never claimed that the US is without it's share of faults. The point of my question was that this country, in a very short time, has done a lot of good on this planet. Yet all we ever hear from overseas is how much this or that sucks and how we ought to mind our own business. That is until the complaining country needs help. Then they don't mind us so much.
I definitely agree with the Somalia part, and as far as Vietnam goes, all I have to do is listen to my father tell stories about his experiences in Vietnam and I get upset at the fact that, in my eyes, he (and all others who fought over there) was never fully compensated for fighting over there. I just watched "We Were Soldiers" the other day. Pretty good movie.Originally posted by Damn True
I'm fond of the Marshall Plan myself.
Remember that with the uploading of a simple code we can effectively shut down GPS to all but the US military so don't muck around with us. LORAN was shut down years ago.
What have we done wrong?
1992-2000 was pretty bad.
I am mortally ashamed that Clinton pulled out of Somalia when a few people got killed and it became a political liability for him. IMO that was the most rightous use of military force in the last 50 years. We had no interest whatsoever there other than as a humanitiarian effort. I was, for a time, actually very proud of Clinton for sending us in there. Until he backed down, and renderd vain the losses of American lives since the mission was not accomplished. The saddest thing about it is that by doing so he set a precedent for non-involvement in civil wars such as Timor, Rawanda etc where we could have done some real good.
Clintons abject failure to get OBL when he had the chance after the USS Cole was bombed. He could have easilly put a Seal team on the ground or utilized (had he not previously emasculated) a CIA black OP to just make OBL dissapear.
I don't fully understand Viet-Nam, and don't think any of us ever will. But what I do know is that the mission was not accomplished and far far too many Americans died w/o an end result that could help their families justify, to some degree, their loss.
I have never claimed that the US is without it's share of faults. The point of my question was that this country, in a very short time, has done a lot of good on this planet. Yet all we ever hear from overseas is how much this or that sucks and how we ought to mind our own business. That is until the complaining country needs help. Then they don't mind us so much.
I think NAFTA is stupid too.
I KNEW the bad stuff would be all Clinton's fault.
edited (i just checked recent numbers for a paper i'm doing): we had a shamefully high infant mortality rate (apparently it's come down some in the past few years but its still high). Japan and Canada and several Western European countries have lower infant mortality and longer life expectancy than we do. We are embarrassingly behind in health care compared to other countries.
CANADA:
Infant mortality rate: 5.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.56 years
male: 76.16 years
female: 83.13 years (2001 est.)
USA:
Infant mortality rate: 6.76 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.26 years
male: 74.37 years
female: 80.05 years (2001 est.)
If it makes you any happier I was not happy with Bush v1.0 caving into the Dem's tax plan.Originally posted by MMike
I KNEW the bad stuff would be all Clinton's fault.
I happen to agree (mostly) with Republican foregin policy.
(Do you agree with everything Bubba did?)
I find Bush to be slightly embarrassing as well:
"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas."
-Then governor George W. Bush replying to a Slovak journalist. Bush met the leader of Slovenia, not Slovakia. Source: Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999.
"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas."
-Then governor George W. Bush replying to a Slovak journalist. Bush met the leader of Slovenia, not Slovakia. Source: Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999.
Slovenia
Slovakia
N. Carolina
S. Carolina
Is there that big a difference?
Slovakia
N. Carolina
S. Carolina
Is there that big a difference?
Originally posted by Damn True
Slovenia
Slovakia
N. Carolina
S. Carolina
Is there that big a difference?
:eviltongu
yo dude, what's wrong with NAFTA?
the US doesn't pay attention to it anyway - take the softwood lumber dispute for example. it doesn't matter that the US efforts to kill CANADA's economy can't be stopped because you'll end up doing what you want to anyway. in the end you'll have our fresh water and vast energy supply, as well as all our weed.
i guess that's one of the problems that plagues your country's power... no one like a schoolyard bully, but no one wants to step up to take you out (until the timings right).
if i were you, i'd watch yo' back
however, if anyone does anything to ya, i'll be the first in line to back you up.
the US doesn't pay attention to it anyway - take the softwood lumber dispute for example. it doesn't matter that the US efforts to kill CANADA's economy can't be stopped because you'll end up doing what you want to anyway. in the end you'll have our fresh water and vast energy supply, as well as all our weed.
i guess that's one of the problems that plagues your country's power... no one like a schoolyard bully, but no one wants to step up to take you out (until the timings right).
if i were you, i'd watch yo' back
however, if anyone does anything to ya, i'll be the first in line to back you up.