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Why we shouldn't take out the terrorists

jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
edited October 2001 in General Discussion
Well now that I got your attention...We take out Germany in '18... and send them billions in loans so they can pay US reparations... we take out Germanly in '45 and invest billions in their economy to restart them... we take out Japan and do the same. All our enemies became freinds after we beat the snot out of them... guess what. I don't want Bin Laden or other guys from over there as freinds. We may not be able to bomb them into the stone age (they're too close now) but we can bomb them dead... so lets do that. I don't think we can afford to rebuild everything we shoot up.
"...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • Free N TXFree N TX Member Posts: 165 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This policy of rebuilding countries that dragged the US into a war is a bunch of BS. After all, we were not the ones that started any of the wars, we just finished it.If anything we should send them a bill for all of the equipment, munitions and manpower that was used to beat the crap out of them. Then make sure we collect every penny. And if they don't pay, we go back over there and finish demonishing every building in the country, including houses, barns and even outhouses.This would also mean that we would not "loan" any money to any country we have ever been at war with, never ever. (I use the term "loan" loosely since no country has ever paid back any loan we so graciously gave them)
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Well, I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment... but one nation did, in fact, pay its debts. Finland paid back every cent owed from WW1. That is one reason why, even when they allied with Germany in WW2 (AKA the Continuation War as the Finns called it, or the Great Patriotic War as the Russkies called it) we never really did anything against them. Course, their debt wasn't too much; hell, if we could get a powerful nation to have paid its debts... that would have been better.
    "...hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he is down, and boil his prisoners in oil- if you take any- and torture his women and children. Then people will keep clear of you..." -Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, speaking at the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
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  • Patrick OdlePatrick Odle Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does anyone remember what was said about leaving our tanks, artillary, jeeps and munitions in Europe at the end of world war 2. does anyone remember facing that self same hardware less than one half decade later in korea. will history never teach us anything or will we continue to depend on the ommission of history to heal old wounds whith need healing but for the sake of all those that partly agree with me or not,lest we not forget.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All of you forget what runs this contry is capitalism and commerce ,america economy runs in destroying and rebuilding and warmonging ,bomb the world and later rebuilt it . Name "collateral damage' population growth control ,its just bussines.
    I judge Thee!, Not for what you are , but for what you say !
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