Bollocks. I oppose them by means which have a chance of both happening and succeeding. You're pie in the sky solutions are about as useful as tissue paper for a bullet proof vest. 

 

Dreaming of a fantastic world in which perfect people work together in a perfect fashion is all well and good, but if you think history indicates that it can happen, well I'll direct you to the local university when you can talk to people who will try to convince you that perfect communism can happen.

 

Yes, market transactions exist now. Pointing that out does not make your case. They work within a framework of the rule of law. You seem to think a patchwork of private laws will have the same effect, and I don't buy it. 

 

I've had enough to the backhanded slams. I'm done here. You think your pie in the sky is real, when it is not and because I dare to disagree I'm some sort of culpable statist who oppresses people. I've made my case more times than has been worth my time for all the good it has done, and in exchange I get called names and laid blame upon for nothing I have done. You are a fanatic, incapable of understanding compromise, especially the one requires such that reality might work.

 

You can blurt more of your nonsense and attacks if you like. Have the last word if it makes you happy. It's pointless arguing with you for obvious reasons. If I don't agree, you can't imagine I comprehend your divine wisdom. As such either I agree or I'm evil and/or ignorant. There's nothing to be gained in discussing with you on this. 

"Myth," "Fantasy," "Perfection," "Utopia," "Pie in the Sky."  I look forward to the next distraction from having to think.

 

When you compared Natural Rights to Utopia and Communism you displayed a serious crossing of cerebral wires.  If you think you have even come close to engaging in a useful rhetorical exercise then you are mistaken. 

 

Most of what you have managed until now, is petty "it never worked" "it can't work" "it's a fantasy."  What genuine contribution have you made to dismissing my ideas so far?  This is not debate.  The sum total of your points has been "it can't work so not worth trying."  Debate me - why can't it work? 

 

Don't disappear, toughen up man, it will do you good.

I'm drawing that conclusion, DA, because you state that you consider gang members and AQ warriors, just as you consider your fellow soldiers warriors.  There are many words I would use for Crips and Bloods and such, but "warriors" is not one of them.  "Common criminals" and "thugs" are the words I would use.  The same goes for AQ, except of course with the higher body count.

 

As for Truman, according to Richard Frank's Downfall, Truman wrote in his diary that he felt the atomic bombs would save "the kids" of Japan, since the Japanese would not sacrifice them as human bombs in the planned invasion.  I guess a modern equivalent would be "shock and awe," but it was not a terror bombing like Guernica, Rotterdam, Coventry, et al.  Maybe it's semantics, but it's still an insult to compare USAAF bomber crews to Hitler's Luftwaffe.

 

Hugo, the Luftwaffe raid on Coventry consisted of several waves.  The first wave went after water mains; others deliberately dropped parachute bombs on the roofs of Coventry to make it harder to fight the fires, and specifically timed their attacks in an attempt to kill firefighters.  Moreover, the aiming point for these bombs was the Coventry cathedral.  So I'll backtrack a little and say that it was apparently only Goering that wanted to kill British civilians, since that was the whole point of the Blitz--especially since Goering ended his somewhat successful campaign to destroy the RAF and attack Britain's aircraft manufacturers, instead attacking London with incendiaries merely to kill civilians.  In fact, the East End was deliberately targeted because it was known it would burn better.

 

 

As distasteful as it is to me to point this out, I believe it necessary to counter the inaccurate historical impression given above.

 

Estimated Dead:

 

Guernica:       250

Rotterdam:    850

Coventry:    1200

Dresden:   35000

 

THEY ARE WARRIORS BY DEFINITION. Just because YOU don't like them doesn't change the facts. Google up what the word warrior means. Common criminals don't organize to wage wars against nation states or take over areas of a city by force. Why are you arguing something so trivial? 

-DA 

^1 Have you been keeping up with Al Qaeda videos?

 

News Story... 

Now if those idiots were dead, would they be recruiting?

 

Who understands war here?

 

Not you.

 I said mutilating a muslim and then insulting Islam by desecrating his body is STUPIDITY. You will never kill those AQ prime members if you further motivate the muslims they live with to keep hiding them. Duuh! From now on you just don't worry about who understands wars. Behind this and missiles for merchants it's clear you are blind as a bat on ANYTHING having to do with war at both tactical and strategic levels. You are an armchair general with a very bad google based knowledge of warfare. Finally, your assertion that Germany is the only other site is a clear indication you know very little about missile defense as well. But we already knew that since you honestly tried to argue that the GBI were there to counter Russia.