Then as a matter of "respect and civility", who called my boss?
U.S. Deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan Decline Dramatically in 2008
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Then as a matter of "respect and civility", who called my boss?
There'll be no further disussion of that here, thanks.
I see attempts to steer this thread away from the original topic and towards the OP's "motivations." The topic is completely serviceable in Miscellaneous. Keep on topic.
On topic - the thread in title and concept is, at best, misleading. In my opinion, it is a deliberate attempt to provoke inflammatory posting.
If the OP wanted a rational, reasonable discussion, "Afghanistan" would not have been included.
If the OP wanted a rational, reasonable discussion, "Afghanistan" would not have been included.
True.
Afghanistan was included to point out that the increase in the death toll there has been vastly outweighed by the reduction in the death toll in Iraq.
The increase in violence in Afghanistan has been played up tremendously by the media and antiwar people while the massive reductions in Iraq might as well have not happened.
The increase in violence in Afghanistan has been played up tremendously by the media and antiwar people while the massive reductions in Iraq might as well have not happened.
Why would we go to war with China? They pretty much own our economy and they're also the one country on the planet that could actually destroy us.
What's the motivation for it anyway? Just because you don't like them? or what, MANIFEST DESTINY!!
Actually, an article regarding China in 2005 The Atlantic magazine (IIRC the year of the article) by two experts in nuclear arsenals stated that the United States would within a few years be able to completely destroy the Chinese nuclear arsenal before they could launch any kind of response, and kill barely 6,000 Chinese in the process.
Then that article like you, is full of shit. For somebody who claims to follow the teachings of Christ, you have one huge hard on for war.
Liberating more than one billion people from tyranny at the cost of only 6,000 lives would seem to be the Christian thing to do.
Even at 100,000 the benefits would outweigh the costs immeasurably.
Now, if it cost the lives of millions of Chinese, I think that would be unacceptable.
You're crosssing the line, Davros.
Move this thread to TNZ where it belongs.
That's not going to happen.
Not based on Christ's own words. He said "offer no resistance to the wicked.".
You still fail to understand that what happens to you in this world doesn't matter if you are saved. You have eternity in heaven to look forward to and a bit of pain and suffering here is irrelevant in that light.
Thank you for admitting that the actual topic of this thread is NOT that "US Deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan Decline Dramatically". You admit that as I indicated, the title was intentionally misleading. Stop playing semantic war games and you'll have a much better time posting in Misc.
We can hardly invade China with minimal casualties but even if we could why would we want to? That makes no sense to me.
Who said anything about invading China?
The U.S. could destroy their nuclear weapons with an ICBM/SLBM strike.
China lacks the early warning facilities that would allow them to respond.
A naval blockade then would bring their economy to its knees in weeks time and their government would certainly be overthrown.
And don't continue that bull about how China owns the U.S. economy or whatever.
China's importance to the U.S. economy is far, far less than Canada (we get more of our oil from Canada than anyone else for example). Much less the European Union.