Rant on communism and Iraq
It irritates the hell out of me when people refer to a "communist government". We've heard the term so many times that it has become the norm when referring to countries like Cuba, North Korea, and China. But, by definition, 'Communism' is a form of economy, no government. Totalitarianism? Sure. Fascism? Awesome. Communism? Negative. It's a way to disperse money to the people of the country (specifically, everyone makes the same salary).
Another thing that bugs me: when people say that we should be in Iraq because it isn't "our war". Well, what was? For all intent and purpose, with that thinking there should only be two wars that we should have been in: the war of 1812, and Japan during WW2. WW1 was not our war, Europe during WW2 was not our war, Vietnam, Korea, the Spanish-American war, Desert Storm, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, ect. Okay then, if Iraq wasn't our war, was Afghanistan? Think about it.
"We never found WMDs in Iraq". Half the people who say this probably don't know what a WMD is. We did. We found quite a bit. But we classified it, and little by little it's becoming unclassified. Just like the nerve agents we found in Germany after WW2, and the biological warfare agents we found in Japan at the same time. We found entire chemical weapon stockpiles. We found bases built around nerve agent factories (although they say it was just pesticide factories [but what are nerve agents? Organophosphates, or really heavy pesticides]).
I'm getting tired of these anti-religion people saying that religion is the cause of every war that's ever been. Okay, then which wars have the US been in in which religion was a leading factor. None. I heard someone say WW2 because of the jews and catholics killed in the concentration camps, but we didn't know about them until we started taking back Europe.
"The US should stop trying to police the world". Since 1991, we are the only "superpower" left in the world. We are the only country that has the capability to support smaller countries and, when needed, intervene if they're, say, genociding their own people. There was a lot of thought that the European Union would be able to, and maybe surpass the US in their global reach, but that hasn't happened. Economically, the EU is quite on their feet, but militarily speaking, they couldn't even manage their own war (The Balkans). The biggest upcoming superstars in the world are China and India, but neither of them are able or willing to step up to the plate of being a "superpower", so it looks like we're on our own for right now.
Another thing that bugs me: when people say that we should be in Iraq because it isn't "our war". Well, what was? For all intent and purpose, with that thinking there should only be two wars that we should have been in: the war of 1812, and Japan during WW2. WW1 was not our war, Europe during WW2 was not our war, Vietnam, Korea, the Spanish-American war, Desert Storm, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, ect. Okay then, if Iraq wasn't our war, was Afghanistan? Think about it.
"We never found WMDs in Iraq". Half the people who say this probably don't know what a WMD is. We did. We found quite a bit. But we classified it, and little by little it's becoming unclassified. Just like the nerve agents we found in Germany after WW2, and the biological warfare agents we found in Japan at the same time. We found entire chemical weapon stockpiles. We found bases built around nerve agent factories (although they say it was just pesticide factories [but what are nerve agents? Organophosphates, or really heavy pesticides]).
I'm getting tired of these anti-religion people saying that religion is the cause of every war that's ever been. Okay, then which wars have the US been in in which religion was a leading factor. None. I heard someone say WW2 because of the jews and catholics killed in the concentration camps, but we didn't know about them until we started taking back Europe.
"The US should stop trying to police the world". Since 1991, we are the only "superpower" left in the world. We are the only country that has the capability to support smaller countries and, when needed, intervene if they're, say, genociding their own people. There was a lot of thought that the European Union would be able to, and maybe surpass the US in their global reach, but that hasn't happened. Economically, the EU is quite on their feet, but militarily speaking, they couldn't even manage their own war (The Balkans). The biggest upcoming superstars in the world are China and India, but neither of them are able or willing to step up to the plate of being a "superpower", so it looks like we're on our own for right now.