The Taliban are getting better and better at guerrilla warfare. They are adapting to our tactics, techniques and procedures much faster than we can change them.
Sending more US troops will only give them more targets while providing more opportunities for incidents that turn the population in their favor?
Even without tincidents nobody....I mean NOBODY wants MORE foreign troops in their backyard.
We should just pull out and see what happens.
I got a better idea Simon. Since SCOTUS effectively stated that non-person entities have 1st amendment rights, why not let the vote or hold office?
Microsoft for Governor of Washington! Why not? After all, they pay taxes and have rights of people. I say we either ban them entirely, or let them act like people.
C'mon, it would be funny at least as a satirical attack as to why to let such entities influence elections.
This is true. But it should be changed.Corporations are just a conglomeration of individuals, all of whom posses rights. There is nothing prohibiting individuals from exercising their rights collectively or through a legal medium such as a corporation.
Actually, it's not a universally comprehensive as that. There are indeed certain kinds of 'speech' that are illegal.More importantly, the Federal government does not have the authority to prohibit any type of speech...
Free speech for humans != lobbying by artificial personsMore importantly, the Federal government does not have the authority to prohibit any type of speech, and is explicitly forbidden from doing so via the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Restrictions on "free speech" are not permitted under the Constitution.
Have any evidence to support this preposterous notion? Surely, you're not arguing that the US military is being outdone by anyone, anywhere, because that would be demonstrably false. Where have all the "we can't win in Iraq" people gone, anyway?
The Taliban are bunch of goat-****ing religious extremists. The US military is the most professional, most technologically advanced military on the planet. The Taliban will lose, but only if we let our military win. Why won't you let them win?
Pull out...and see what happens? You don't actually believe that, do you?
In a thread about US and world economic growth, someone says military budgets should be cut, and instantly you build a massive soap box to spew speculations such as "the budget cuts in the 1990's caused 911", etc....
Just following the line of logic you employed in previous posts. Don't want to allow Iran and NK to stir up WWIII now do we? Preemptive war discussions are for a different thread/sub-forum.
How about you stop acting like a weirdo every time someone begins discussing military budget cuts?
Nobody else goes on super rants every time a "conflict of interest" arises and turns a discussion about global growth into a discussion regarding military conflict. Like i said before, not only is it odd, its ****ing weird....
OK, that's a given, but not earth shattering news. There is a huge difference between the 1990's, when the US was the only major superpower, and today, which features a multipolar paradigm. We are going to have to give and receive cooperation with the Eurozone, Russia, China, South America, and all the other powers, and emerging powers out there. The fact that we can't go it alone any more is an understatement.
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