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Originally Posted by Frosty
We usually see eye to eye on most political stuff you mook lol. It's Al you have your hissy fit with lol
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Matt likes to pick on me for fun. When you talk to him, he is very much like me, split down the middle. He says stuff that just gets on people's nerves. Hard to imagine...
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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
MMMM, canadian bacon tacos FTW. lol.
I think a small percentage of terrorists are fighting because of our innability to convert to Islam, but IMO, if they were mainly set on attacking our religion, they would of bombed churches, synagoges ( probably spelled that wrong), but instead they attacked our Government and financial sectors ( Pentagon and WTC). Now maybe they are looking to swipe our legs out from under us before they attack our religious sectors, but wouldn't they of also attacked like the Vatican and what not by now?
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They attacked our Ideas, what we stand for. They attack our way of life. if you want to make it about religion, then it would be materialisim. They also dont like us backing a small little country that we planted in the middle east either...
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As for the isolation from the world, I agree to a part, we lent too much our our dependancy to overseas manufacturing, which prevents us from giving the world the big one-finger salute when **** hits the fan, but also places like China, who hold 95% of the worlds precious metals that are used in things like microchips, missile and rocket navigation, etc, to lock them out we would fall behind.
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Its obvious that we cannot be isolated from the world, as we depend on it as much as it depends on us. We have become too important to ourselves, and why we left blue collar jobs behind for more money.
This country is in rough shape, and we have torn at the strongest pillars that have gotten this country through the toughest times.
Industry and Education are now on the bottom rung, as we pour nearly 1 trillion dollars into military spending EVERY year. For what? For putting a 1/4 million 18-25 year olds in harms way. Yes, they signed up for it, and they are there to protect us, but I dont see going into Iraq as protection. We had Iraq wrapped up, having total control over everything that goes in and out of that hell hole.
Surrounded by its enemies on 3 sides, and the UN flying and driving all over that sandbox, there was no way anything was getting done.