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33. Take care of our own first.

Reply to yellowwoodII (Original post)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 06:45 PM

Mar 2014

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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