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25 Questions about What the Hell has Happened to America

Dr_Zinj Wrote: Sep 04, 2012 9:20 AM
I hate to break it to you, but the first priority of war is to win it. If you don't win it, you lost. If you only started it to benefit a small group of businesses in your country, your country lost. It's a harsh reality, but protecting your troops comes second to winning. Winning is its own protection. If you're concerned about good press, you're conducting a propaganda war; and that must come after winning and protectig your troops. "Enemy civilians" is an oxymoron, only morons with the mental ability of a ox think the term means anything. Civilians are non-combatants who don't support our enemies. The enemy is anyone who raises a weapon against you, or aids those who do.
Joseph64 Wrote: Sep 04, 2012 10:14 AM
Should be 'willing' not 'winning'.
Joseph64 Wrote: Sep 04, 2012 10:12 AM
If you had someone in your direct line of descent who fought in World War II, or was even healthy enough to potentially be drafted into service back then, then you may owe your very existence today to the dropping of the atomic bombs. If there was an invasion of Japan, a lot of American lives would have been lost and your line of descent may have been terminated before your father/mother/grandfather/grandmother was ever born.
Joseph64 Wrote: Sep 04, 2012 10:09 AM
And bring the war to an end sooner. The Japanese only surrendered after seeing the devastation we were capable of unleashing against them. It took TWO atomic bombs to bring them to the point of despair. After the first one they were still winning to fight on in fanatical devotion to the Emperor. An invasion of the Japanese home islands using conventional forces would have been a disaster for both sides. The only way to end it quickly was to use the atomic bombs.
Joseph64 Wrote: Sep 04, 2012 10:07 AM
This is what I try to explain to people who condemn the atomic bombings or the fire bombing of Dresden. They always say that civilian targets should be off limits in war but the civilians are the ones making guns and bombs that will be used against our people. The civilians are the ones who will volunteer or be conscripted to replace enemy troops that were killed or wounded in the fighting. It is the civilians who will act as spies and intelligence runners for the military of their country against our troops once they manage to take up positions inside enemy territory. When large numbers of civilians are killed in a war, it turns those that are left against the war fearing they may be next and can destabilize the leadership.
Dr_Zinj Wrote: Sep 04, 2012 9:20 AM
I too have noticed the trend of "tolerance" being misconstrued to mean approval and disapproval become tantamount to hate. You can call it "Newspeak", you can call it double talk, but it's the same thing. Redefining something to fit a political agenda is lying. The GBLT cabal is halfway, or more, in redefining marriage to be something other than its historical meaning of a union of a man and a woman. And the leaders of their movement are driving to force not just tolerance of their deviacies, but to mandate advocacy of it, and universal practice of it.

When did...

1) ....Educated people become so unfamiliar with small business that they began to believe that a company will practically build itself as long as the government provides roads, street signs, and police?

2) ...Freedom change from something we should all be seeking to something we're supposed to be terrified to face without the government holding our hands?

3) ...We stop asking, "Can we afford this?" along with "Is this a good idea?" when it comes to government programs?

4) ...Demanding that people come to this country legally if they want to stay...

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