Being an armchair warrior on an obscure message board is a highly venerated tradition.
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
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Being an armchair warrior on an obscure message board is a highly venerated tradition.
Hard to say what it's about. maybe it's "that time of the month"?
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
Hello Phantasmal,
Add me to that list. My litmus test for deciding if something is really OK to do is asking: "What if everyone did that?" "Is that good for the world or not."
Wars are begun by leaders. Most people, no matter what country they're in, they just want to live and let live. Why start trouble or mess with other people? It's not logical. Rich powerful leaders start wars. Poor powerless followers are always the ones to die.
Add me to that list. My litmus test for deciding if something is really OK to do is asking: "What if everyone did that?" "Is that good for the world or not."
Wars are begun by leaders. Most people, no matter what country they're in, they just want to live and let live. Why start trouble or mess with other people? It's not logical. Rich powerful leaders start wars. Poor powerless followers are always the ones to die.
And one of the small joys of the Internet; finding out what every frickin' moron on the planet thinks about geopolitics and military strategy.
Two main things: resources and religions. Nowadays it seems to be all about money.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
You left off military ID.
That's a copy and paste.
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
Hello Jack,
Everybody is never going to be a warrior, nor should they be.
The best fighters should fight.
The best people at doing all the other things that are worth fighting for should do what they do best.
Everybody is never going to be a warrior, nor should they be.
The best fighters should fight.
The best people at doing all the other things that are worth fighting for should do what they do best.
My take is that she was highlighting the fact that some Deplorable scolded me for not understanding how evil the Japanese were and how they got what was coming to them -- when in fact my parents, aunt, and grandparents lived under a Japanese military occupation.
The moral of the story is that armchair warriors comfortably ensconced in their recliner are often the first to holler about nuking Mecca or Tokyo.
T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Well, it's true, a military ID works for air travel. In fact, it can substitute for a passport depending on the status of forces agreements that the US has with other nations. For example, you can enter almost all European countries on just a military ID--no passport needed. That's because the US has an agreement to allow members of those nation's militaries travel just as US military members can. It's supposed to be for transit or service / duty purposes, but only very rarely does anyone bother to check that.
Thus, I can go into Mexico and use my military ID to reenter the US, no passport needed for example. I suspect the same is true for Canada.
I am proud that, unlike Obama, Trump started no wars in his first term.
He even orchestrated unprecedented peace treaties between Israel and their Jihadist neighbors.
In the case of your pacifism, if you act as a pacifist without protecting your self or your country or it's citizens, someone who is not a pacifist will eventually tell you what to do and you will have two choices.
Obey or Disobey
And unless you have a provision in your philosophy to fight back effectively, you will lose.
Switzerland's neutrality is enforced by a potent military.
Gandhi's kind of pacifism only works to make a government have to choose between working peacefully with the populace or trying to govern a violently hostile population set off by the government's killing(s) of pacifist martyrs (like yourself?).
The Chemical Weapons were Internationally Banned Weapons since WW1.
The Barrel Bombs were not banned weapons.
Since the wind would carry the deadly chemicals in any direction, it was pretty cruel. It was a good instance to enforce International Law.
Assad may or may not be 'the best choice'.
But a 'Syrian Kurdistan' (like the 'Iraqi Kurdistan') would be a good investment for 'Western Values'. Rojava, a region where the Religious Nut Jobs aren't in charge.
"The Rojava conflict, also known as the Rojava revolution, is a political upheaval and military conflict taking place in northern Syria, known among Kurds as Western Kurdistan or Rojava."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava_conflict
That thinking is what put the Japanese in the internment camps and it is a blight on American history.
I recall a quote that expresses that in a similar way. Something about old men start wars and send young men to die in them.
I am not surprised. I know that some immigrants have or are serving in the US military.
Oh Pumpkin. I remember having this discussion with you before. Is your selective amnesia kicking in?
It's certainly much safer to sit in one's nice safe home and throw verbal grenades at others, than to actually serve in combat.
You remember scheiss, my adorable little melon. Produce it or move on with your deflections, Bonespurs. lol
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