Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes to give President Obama the power to launch

[Peatree]

I think we should just give every monkey in the world a knife and a hand grenade. This should solve everything.

[Lojik]

+10 internets to ahldagor for posting Sherman. I think it's often lost how awful war is, and that only truly righteous causes warrant aggression. You must be sure 100% that what you're doing is necessary, because war is hell, and cornered dogs will do anything to survive. If you're not willing to do whatever it takes to win that war, it's probably not worth fighting. What is one way of killing vs. another.

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by Lojik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

+10 internets to ahldagor for posting Sherman. I think it's often lost how awful war is, and that only truly righteous causes warrant aggression. You must be sure 100% that what you're doing is necessary, because war is hell, and cornered dogs will do anything to survive. If you're not willing to do whatever it takes to win that war, it's probably not worth fighting. What is one way of killing vs. another.

My sentiments exactly. We've been half-assing wars for decades now and failing every time. The only way we should ever fight war is all out, and only when absolutely necessary. Syria doesn't seem to fit the bill. Iraq didn't fit the bill. Afghan kinda did, but we didn't even bother half-assing that one. Maybe quarter-ass if you're being generous.

What happened to "speak softly and carry a big stick"? We do the exact opposite now.

[aowen]

And praise jesus? You must be dumb

[Lojik]

American foreign policy sometimes reminds me of a scifi story where the main character goes around searching for a monster that's killing people. Only after a while he finally realizes that he's the monster. I'm sure that's happened in a famous novel that I read, someone help me out here.

Many people will simply accept any action as long as it has good intentions without fully understanding the consequences. To my mind, that is far more dangerous than willful acts of evil.

Well put. What's the quotation..."Evil exists when good men do nothing?" I think a better one would be "Evil exists when ignorance prevails."

[Estolcles]

Originally Posted by Lojik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

American foreign policy sometimes reminds me of a scifi story where the main character goes around searching for a monster that's killing people. Only after a while he finally realizes that he's the monster. I'm sure that's happened in a famous novel that I read, someone help me out here.



Well put. What's the quotation..."Evil exists when good men do nothing?" I think a better one would be "Evil exists when ignorance prevails."

"I Am Legend" is the book you're thinking of, in recent memory.

They just changed the ending for the movie to make Will Smith not look like an asshole.

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by Lojik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

American foreign policy sometimes reminds me of a scifi story where the main character goes around searching for a monster that's killing people. Only after a while he finally realizes that he's the monster. I'm sure that's happened in a famous novel that I read, someone help me out here.

The movie Identity is sort of like this.

[aowen]

Originally Posted by Lojik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well put. What's the quotation..."Evil exists when good men do nothing?" I think a better one would be "Evil exists when ignorance prevails."

I agree with this, but I also think evil exists when Henry Kissinger has been involved.

I have a deep-seated doubt that U.S. foreign policy flows solely from naive altruism rather than ulterior motives based on realist interpretations of people and international relations.

[Stinkum]

Originally Posted by Daldolma

wait, so you're bigoted toward jews and hate israel? i am shocked.

how is he a bigot? he made a pretty light-hearted and obvious joke, jesus christ lighten up you uptight doofus

[Stinkum]

and stop saying that pakistan is in the middle east, this is probably the 3rd or 4th post you've said that in this thread. cringeworthy man, pakistan is in south asia, not even remotely close..

or are all brown people the same to you?