Thanks RSLog and thanks Mr. X.

Why dont you respond about the propper reaction to 9/11 that you think should have been taken? I can read 100 books and get 100 different answers, but you have many strong opinions on many subjects, yet you keep referring to one particular book. What is your own opinion on how USA should have responded to protect herself after attacks of 9/11? Simple question.

Regarding necessary wars vs. unjust wars, reminds me of a recent Ken Burns documentary on PBS called The War, where he even called one episode ‘A Necessary War’. But to classify any military action in such a way without the perspective of the time and situation surrounding the event is impossible. It is easy to be a “monday morning quarterback” today and say the war in Vietnam was fought poorly, or the current situation in Iraq had poor planning for the occupation, but at the time these actions were started, they were indeed considered necessary.

In 1991, had Iraq taken Saudi Arabia after Kuwait, oil supplies would have been at risk. In the Korean and Vietnam situations, the communist threat, which many today forget, was still very real.

The idea that “since America was an isolationist state before WWI and it worked well for us, we should go back to that” is just short sighted. The global economy, worldwide travel and communications, and lack of imperial powers would never allow the U.S. to prosper as isolationists.

You also make the statement that preemptive war is a poor position to take for military action, yet had countries in the late 30’s take preemptive action against Germany, millions of lives would have been spared. The idea that its “its not my problem” only works for so long.

And you never actually answered what you think should have been the U.S. response to their being attacked by Muslim radicals on September 11th. Should they have sat back and said “Gee, I wonder why the Muslim radicals hate us…I must have done something wrong to bother them, so I guess I deserve to have New York City burning today.”

And about the military bases we have in countries around the world, are you saying that the 55 countries we don’t have bases in could cause us trouble?

Oh btw your posts are TL;DR. So do us all a favor and FTFO.

To even make this statement equating the killing of six million innocent people by a ruthless dictator to a system that MAY favor defendants with higher incomes is just incredible: “Unequal treatment of blacks and hispanics in the US “Justice” system (Holocaust)”

And your constant bashing of all American military engagements is also telling. I would love to hear how you think the U.S. should have reacted to the attacks upon itself on Septemeber 11, 2001.

The problem with your statement is that if the election in 2008 can totally reverse the “facist” course that the U.S. is supposedly on, then it was never “facist” to begin with.

Are the people in America all following their President Bush blindly like the Germans followed Hitler? Americans seem to spend all day protesting against leaders they elected themselves.

Unless maybe it is their “corporately controlled” media that brings publicity to these protests? Then your argument really falls apart.

If you actually re-read your post you will see that you use a fascist type attack; you only attack the messenger instead of providing an argument that the message itself is flawed.

^- #27 what kind of retarded response is that? a fascist type attack? he made a generalized and very ignorant comment and i responded to it, its called acknowledging the confusion of a 15 year old admin of this site. the “messenger” was an admin making a pretty arrogant and ridiculous comment about america, it had nothing to do with an argument or anything else. please go find something to do with your time other than instigate in an already dumb situation.

it was simply a lame little kid saying “america is fascist” and me saying “lol youre stupid”. if you want to go throw the bill of rights at me and rant about whatever then go ahead but you are clearly missing the point here.