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1. Just Goes to Show the US Has a LONG History of Indignities

Reply to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 02:14 PM

Dec 2012

It's not something recent with a helicopter gunship mowing down civilians or indiscriminate armed drones bombing weddings. The US has felt privileged since it was founded and answerable to no laws and no one.

We continue to spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined so we can continue to swing the largest penis on the world stage. We're starting to learn that no longer matters because it's hard to detect terrorist groups who want to blow up your world rather than another nation's army that marshals on your border.

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Just Goes to Show the US Has a LONG History of Indignities dballance Dec 2012 #1