So we are not great if there is not a war ? Our grandparents were not define by WWII , but by a economic catrastophe. And guess what it was a liberal goverment which brought us back from the dead.
Sorry but I think that both defined our Grandparents generation. While the great depression plunged the country into financial ruins, I believe that our involvement in WWII was far more important to preserving the freedom which we still enjoy today. I think of my Grandfather more in the setting of being a gunnery officer on the USS GWIN, standing side by side other courageous men while fighting against an enemy willing to commit suicide (kamikaze) in order to achieve its country's objective.
But I would like to go further and dissect your message piece by piece.
I have always known that most of in aviation are consevative individuals but half of you all sound like the factual however crudlike information emanating from conservative AM radio and FOX news
I wonder if there is a reason why an overwhelming number of AM radio talk shows are conservative. Could it be because that's what the majority of the people located in their markets are? Privately owned radio stations make money through advertising. If no one is listening, then no one would pay to put their advertisements on that station.
This concept that liberalism has been the ruin of America has become such an accepted axiom as to make unacceptable if one disagrees with whatever the current mentality.
First, I had to read that sentence a couple of times to find the meaning. And Yes, if you are a liberal and speak your beliefs, but the country currently feels that liberalism is responsible for many of our current problems, then you are likely to be criticized. The only one that may be unnacceptable to is the liberal individual. But fear not, there are still many outlets in our society besides Fox News and Am Radio talk that cater to liberals, such as the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Miami Herald, and National Public Radio.
It strikes a abhorrent to see a group of men and women using 9/11 as the rallying cry for a new great generation. So we are not great if there is not a war ? Our grandparents were not define by WWII , but by a economic catrastophe. And guess what it was a liberal goverment which brought us back from the dead. It was a collective mentality of mercy and care for others which made them the greatest generation. Many of our families were saved by the New Deal.
Even Tom Brokaw, a left leaning journalist on NBC, defines our Grandparents generation by WWII. And most economists would say that WWII had a great deal to do with our economic recovery as many factories reopened to manufacture weapons and armory for the military. Once the war was over, those factories were converted to manufacture exportable goods to boost our economy. The New Deal was only meant to last long enough to help give poorer families a chance to recover. Unfortunately, many of those programs are still in effect today, not doing what they were intended, but rather fostering the idea in many americans that the Government will support them, even if they choose not to support themselves. They do not view that support as coming from other people and families, but that the Government has an endless supply of money OWED to them.
Some of you did not have to live the ridiculous arm race and MADD. How to nations use smaller conflicts to whip it out and see who was mister big
I can't even respond to this one, because I don't even know what you were trying to say. Maybe you should sell some of your $10 words, to buy a grammar book.
Now thanks to individual who have never felt or understood how taking a life feels we are back into the new "cold war ".
Are you saying that the current administration is comprised of leaders who have no military experience? WHAT? I have run into many liberals and democrats lately that openly admit that they would rather have the current administration in place than what Al Gore might have enacted. And what kind of "Cold War" includes crashing Airliners into our skyscrapers and Pentagon?
There will always be terrorism eitherby some megalomaniac individual like you know who. There are many cases in which these sort of actions although disgusting are the result of legitimate grievances. Remember terrorism is defined by the empire. Terrorism is the weapon of those without an army.
What legitimate reason did bin Laden have for attacking the United States on its own soil, the USS Cole, our American Embassies, the first WTC attack? Was it because we believe in a different way of life? is that a LEGITIMATE reason? And terrorism is truly defined by the victims and witnesses, because afterall they are the ones terrorized. bin Laden has an army, an army of terrorist, that is organized and spread out in many different countries. He has a budget bigger than many small countries for their entire military.
The question which we should all be trying to answer is why ? Presently we are the biggest guy in the block, how are we going to act ? Like the Romans, the britsbefore us we are acting like an empirelet us at least fess up to it and not kid ourselves.
To be an empire, it suggests that you must conquer. How many conquerors in history can you point to that would provide humanitarian aid in the form of food and medicine to the civil populace of the country in which it is conquering? We, as the biggest guy on the block, are acting accordingly. We are sending a message to the world that if you have a terrorist camp in your country, and that group commits an act of terrorism against the U.S. or its interests, you can no longer disassociate yourself (your country) from the terrorist. If other countries will not or choose not to police its own residents, then we must do it for them once we become victims.
Remember the most patriotic complement an American can recieve is to be called a dissident.
That is purely your opinion. The american traitor fighting for the Taliban is probably a dissident too.
Please come clean now. Being your first post on this board, was all this meant to be flame bait? If so, both your post and mine will probably be removed before many can view it. But in any case, I would hope that at the very least you are thankful to this EMPIRE and all of its CONSERVATIVES for the right to be able to speak your mind in this country without being shot in the back of the head, like you might have been by the taliban in Afghanistan pre 9/11.
