Oragonian said
"The old story about the mean white guy conquering the nice red guy is really tired with me....."
Oregonian, I'm courious as to the type of cars you prefer driving? And, are you currently serving, or intend to volunteer, for combat and go to the middle East for a tour? To act as the gun slinging cowboy, conquering the olive skin Arabs for their oil, just like in the good ole days of cowboys and Indians, is a foolish rationale, if you ask me. The difference today is that the nice Red Guys that used arrows, those weapons have been replaced with suicide bombers, A-bombs and guns, and the mean white guys (as you put it) uses guns and A-bombs. Same senario, but different weapons. We still have more of the supreme weapon (A-B), but they have that deceptive suicide weapon, which we don't. It's their version of the smart bomb. Unless you are willing to be a suicide bomber for Exon, you don't have the equal commitment to win in the Oil Wars.
If they were over here bombing and shooting my family, I would personally strap on a bomb and blast as many of them as I could. Defense of family and friends is a powerful force.
Again, since in you book, the aggressive behavior of taking what you want (or conquering as you put it) is a noble and honorable thing, then I would assume that you will volunteer for duty and allow some respite for the soldier that are currently fighting. From what I hear, a lot of our soldiers don't want to be there. Some actually volunteered, thinking that they we fighting because of WMD, or an imminent threat. They have since learned that their sacrifice was for a lie, and that it's is all for the benefit of Exon and Big Oil.
You seem to think it's kool and sanctioned by God, to go into another mans home, while killing and taking what you want. And when one objects or suggests that it's wrong, you consider them tiring and out dated, a liberal and not to be payed any attention. Sounds to me like you have dranked to much Neocon's, G W's Kool Aid.
My guess is that you are a young chicken hawk with lots of humble pie on the menu in your very near future. When we are young and inexperienced, it's a good time to observe others that are older, wiser and more experienced.
Your attitude towards humanity, will result in the nuking of us all. That's right, I included us, because we are not to only ones with guns or bombs. Talk like that is exactly whats motivating many other countries, into producing their own A-bombs. It's the arrogance of our threats of nuking first, if those sovereign nations don't do exactly as we say, handing over any and everything we want, while inslaving their masses and calling it freedom. It is because of our policy and reputation regarding Iraq, that is without a doubt, telling other nations that we feel, that since we have nukes, we can be aggressive and bully those without. If they want lay down and take it, we will nuke em. They now realize only those countries that have the bomb, can deter us from the premptive killing of innocent civilians, and the looting of natural resources, as well destruction of their infrastructure. If they don't have a bomb, then they'd better keep an eye on the skys, because our bombs will be digging craters and killing their baby's, that is if there is loot that can be looted by this regime.
We need to take the lead with example and deplomacy, in our dealings with WMD's, as well as responsible actions regarding our own WMD's. This is needed to in order to prevent the entire planet, from being rendered un-inhabitable, from the radio-activity of the collective, mutually assured, destroyers of all life, the mega ton's of bombs X 100,000. That would screw up the fishing for all us fisherman for sure.
BTW, DU is killing and maiming everyone in the theater's of Afgan and Iraq as I type. We have already nuked them, as well as our own, and the stuff will keep killing for a millenium. It's a war crime or a crime against humanity to pre-emptively nuke innocent people.
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