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mears said:
Again, you make it so simple. Americas military budget is so big because the US economy towers over the rest of the world.

Like, you know, the economy of the state of California is bigger than the country of France.

Per every $10 of GDP America spends $.024 on defense. This ranks 46th on the list of nations as shown here:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_exp_dol_fig_pergdp

So many other countries devote a larger share of their pie towards defense.

When your economy is so big you can have your cake and eat it to.

Mears, I don't doubt they do and id critisise them equally, but you asked me about the US so that's the answer you got. Id make the same point writ large for all countries.

Why do you need to spend so much money on defending youself Mears, when lets face it apart from Pearl Harbour your country has never been attacked by a foreign military force since its conception. In fact 'defence' isn't defence at all is it Mears? Its another piece of doublethink that actually means attack. Its a war machine for bombing and killing people whilst many of your own sons and daughters die before their first birthday.

Is this the way you always want things Mears? Because if it isn't you're going to have to change the way you think and see the world. It's not your little plaything. Grow up. :rolleyes:
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
For what: the Bay of Pigs?

For providing some of the finest sub-contractors the US intelligence community has ever used (I use the word to mean "most professional and efficient"), plus parts of the infrastructure for disseminating illegal substances.

And that's without getting into tinfoil-hatter territory. :)
 
ViolentPanda said:
For providing some of the finest sub-contractors the US intelligence community has ever used (I use the word to mean "most professional and efficient"), plus parts of the infrastructure for disseminating illegal substances.

And that's without getting into tinfoil-hatter territory. :)

I always thought that govts were singularly ungrateful when it came to acknowledging and rewarding wet work and other clandestine types.
 
mears said:
Again, you make it so simple. Americas military budget is so big because the US economy towers over the rest of the world.

Like, you know, the economy of the state of California is bigger than the country of France.

Per every $10 of GDP America spends $.024 on defense. This ranks 46th on the list of nations as shown here:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_exp_dol_fig_pergdp

So many other countries devote a larger share of their pie towards defense.

When your economy is so big you can have your cake and eat it to.

Could you please be a person of credible authority so that next time the US administration whinges about lack of defense spending elsewhere in the world (which it does frequently) everybody can say but Defense Secretary Mears said...
 
Barking_Mad said:
I didn't see your other posts otherwise ive had responded in full......

It's the usual binary logic and doublethink from you Mears. I was passing judgement on your own logic and reasoning of situations and how you manage to justify anything you like, therefore meaning there is no present reality or truth as you simply get to define both of those how you like and 20 seconds later - BLAM! A new one appears. Handy eh? But then again you don't give a shit about that or the millions of people your government has killed along the way to making sure it stays No.1 in the world and keeps hold of it's power.

Why are you obsessed with power and money Mears? Do they make you feel good about yourself Mears? Does they give you a sense of identity and pride? Does they remove all those niggling doubts you have and let you sleep soundly in your bed knowing people have died and are dying in horrible ways in far off lands so you can sit on here telling folk how 'free' you are and how much you worship money?

I believe co-operation is the way forward, however that doesn't mean that you get to define what co-operation is and have ownership on it. Co-operation shouldn't extend as far as selling arms to evil dictators, actively propping up dictators for the purposes of mass slaughter, training killers in US military installations to do their dirty work for, otherthrowing democratic regimes (and the rest) as the US has done on so many occasions. But no doubt you will justify that too eh? Who appointed the US God? What right do you have to do whatever you like with other peoples lives?

And Mears since you've ignored my own comments time and time again Ill repeat them. I'd say the same if it was China, France, Brazil or whoever was the major governmental superpower. The fact you think it's just because it's about the US shows how wide and shallow your own ego is and how you'd rather deflect any critisism on to others and not look at yourself. As I've said so many times and as you've ignored so many times - people aren't anti-US, they are anti your government and for that matter all the other countries governments that share its 'principles'. The fact you chose to encompass 260m people and the US state as a whole homogenous lump when you get critisised goes to show how you are unable to seperate yourself from your country and government and how your thinking is limited to simplistic terms and ideas.

Mears is the US, the US is Mears. Can't put a cigarette paper between them. And before you ask for your usual "examples of political alternatives" Id point one thing out. Your lack of imagination and lack of willingness to think about anything else seems to me like you'd be the sort of person who would have lived under feudalism and never dared to imagine that another political alternative (ie capitalism) would have followed it. Indeed my guess is you'd have probably rubbished the idea of capitalism as a "pipe dream".

Do you have a point?You spent all this time writing general nonsense about my personal feelings and makeup? It seems like a waste of time.

If you want to discuss a certain world situation than by all means but you should not waste your time on such drivel.
 
mears said:
Do you have a point?You spent all this time writing general nonsense about my personal feelings and makeup? It seems like a waste of time.

If you want to discuss a certain world situation than by all means but you should not waste your time on such drivel.

I was trying to appeal to your better side Mears, the one we don't see - but clearly there's a good reason for that. :(
 
mears said:
Again, you make it so simple. Americas military budget is so big because the US economy towers over the rest of the world.

Like, you know, the economy of the state of California is bigger than the country of France.

Per every $10 of GDP America spends $.024 on defense. This ranks 46th on the list of nations as shown here:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_exp_dol_fig_pergdp

So many other countries devote a larger share of their pie towards defense.

When your economy is so big you can have your cake and eat it to.

GDP again, mears? How many times do you need to be told?:D

The US spend far more on defence than you have stated here. Most of the state's budget is spent on making or developing technology to kill other people. That's a fact.
 
Barking_Mad said:
I was trying to appeal to your better side Mears, the one we don't see - but clearly there's a good reason for that. :(

This is about world politics, not personal feelings. Its no place to paint a psycological portrait of someone you never laid your eyes on. It just means you are unable to carry the conversation relating to Cuba or international realtions any further so you bring up personal hogwash.
 
mears said:
This is about world politics, not personal feelings. Its no place to paint a psycological portrait of someone you never laid your eyes on. It just means you are unable to carry the conversation relating to Cuba or international realtions any further so you bring up personal hogwash.

It's funny how you say that when you come here and spout a load of nonsense based upon your own personal feelings. You're a hypocrite mears, a one-dimensional, braindead hypocrite.

I speak your weight. Insert coin.
 
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