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Sat Mar 1, 2014, 02:51 PM

calimary (54,889 posts)

13. Thoroughly.

Sick and tired.

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41 replies	Author	Time	Post
Are You Tired of Being the World's Policeman? [View all]	yellowwoodII	Mar 2014	OP
I resent the taxes I pay being used for their war games.	L0oniX	Mar 2014	#1
+1	Go Vols	Mar 2014	#2
So tired	whatchamacallit	Mar 2014	#3
I'm not an isolationist by any stretch, but shit!	Aristus	Mar 2014	#4
One can be sure some in the MIC are cranking the numbers on profitability scenarios! n/t	RKP5637	Mar 2014	#5
Seeing as how our "protection" of countries is like the Mafia's "protection" of businesses...	Tierra_y_Libertad	Mar 2014	#6
+1 n/t	whatchamacallit	Mar 2014	#7
The common mistake I think we all make is assuming if we weren't the "world's policeman" that the	okaawhatever	Mar 2014	#8
Who Is the "We" Kemosabe?	yellowwoodII	Mar 2014	#10
The 'we' would be the same people as the 'our' referred to, in your own OP	muriel_volestrangler	Mar 2014	#11
Thank you, that was really bugging me as I read.	Bluenorthwest	Mar 2014	#14
Well, the "we" is the United States. If you mean who is the "we" in terms of individual members	okaawhatever	Mar 2014	#12
Grenada was worthy of an invasion?	malaise	Mar 2014	#26
What was the purpose of Vietnam where we lost over 50,000 lives and they fought back	sabrina 1	Mar 2014	#34
I'm not saying there is a valid justification for Vietnam or Iraq, but your assumption that none of	okaawhatever	Mar 2014	#38
This message was self-deleted by its author	Th1onein	Mar 2014	#36
Strange that nobody even tried to answer your question	mythology	Mar 2014	#37
Is grits groceries?	Lasher	Mar 2014	#9
Thoroughly.	calimary	Mar 2014	#13
Interesting that this is the focus of some during Russias unprovoked war of aggression.	stevenleser	Mar 2014	#15
We object to war crimes again?	JoeyT	Mar 2014	#24
That line of reasoning does not work with individual citizens. I am not the government or the Bush	stevenleser	Mar 2014	#27
I meant our government objecting to them.	JoeyT	Mar 2014	#29
But the OP was about what we as individuals think as was my response.	stevenleser	Mar 2014	#31
When corporations, oligarchs and the surveillance	Aerows	Mar 2014	#16
You and Cleita nailed it	malaise	Mar 2014	#28
I don't really see it that way. I see it as using our military and young people	Cleita	Mar 2014	#17
And the US and EU are in there, meddling with all their might	Demeter	Mar 2014	#18
There has been talk that many of the conditions that started WW1 are	Cleita	Mar 2014	#20
With our funding, intelligence support, propaganda, etc	Demeter	Mar 2014	#21
99% of the time that is what starts wars, protecting nations' business interests.	liberal_at_heart	Mar 2014	#23
Or wanting to plunder their natural resources. eom	Cleita	Mar 2014	#32
ya. nt	seabeyond	Mar 2014	#19
Not policemen, stormtroopers!	Demeter	Mar 2014	#22
as long as we spend more on the military than the most of the rest of the world combined	usa liberal	Mar 2014	#25
Why, yes! Yes, I am.	Octafish	Mar 2014	#30
Take care of our own first.	jsr	Mar 2014	#33
And like many policmen, also the leading gangster.	JackRiddler	Mar 2014	#35
immensely tired, sick and broke.	Tuesday Afternoon	Mar 2014	#39
The world's corrupt cops is more like it	Corruption Inc	Mar 2014	#40
Yeah. I have flat feet from walking the beat. Wait.	Pretzel_Warrior	Mar 2014	#41

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