Politics

[Liv]

You feel incorrectly. I was not ignoring you, but now I am. Someday you shall see the flaws of your ways. But for now:

Goodbye it is time for me to go. I am glad that we all agree that I am correct. It was nice talking with you. I hope to see you again in the future.

awesome possum.

[zyzzyva980]

Someday you shall see the flaws of your ways.

Dammit, everyone has their own opinion, stop acting like yours is better than everyone else's. You're in division B, what gives you the power to act like you know everything to one of the board's strongest members, who is several years older than you and obviously knows what he's talking about? What does? Nothing. You need to respect other people more, and until you do that, we can't respect you. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is.

[lllazar]

The flaws of their/his ways? Your joking right? Fm has pretty much broken down every one of your arguments in an orderly fashion, and you arrogantly state that you're right, he's wrong, end of story?

1. Get off that high horse which is probably twice your height.
2. Learn to argue, "shut up, i'm right, kthxbye" is not an acceptable rebuttal.
3. Learn to read, that trip costed nowhere NEAR 200 million dollars, and if you sincerely think it's a waste of money to extend a welcome arm to another country, scratch that, an influential country which would make a good ally, then you need to establish your priorities for this countries and it's people mate.

Edit: And btw i just finished reading this whole thread from beginning to end, i have to say i might just get addicted to this very well thought out arguments and discussions (well, for the most part )

[Littleboy]

How can a trip cost $200,000,000? Oh I know, it didn't

Why doesn't he pay the security himself. He has more than enough money. It is his security. Our taxes will finally get cut.
EDIT: We don't need allies when we have Chuck Norris

.........he only makes $400,000--a minuscule amount compared to the rich you say need tax cuts.
[/quote]

Only 400,000 that is more than anyone I know has ever made in their life. I never said anything about the rich (that is kroll).

Allies could potentionally help us with our dept and taxes.

[EpicFailOlympian]

I think the government needs to balance the budget and develop the infrastructure. Then and only then we can do the humanitarian things like helping 3rd world countries.

[fmtiger124]

Someday you shall see the flaws of your ways.

Dammit, everyone has their own opinion, stop acting like yours is better than everyone else's. You're in division B, what gives you the power to act like you know everything to one of the board's strongest members, who is several years older than you and obviously knows what he's talking about? What does? Nothing. You need to respect other people more, and until you do that, we can't respect you. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is.

The flaws of their/his ways? Your joking right? Fm has pretty much broken down every one of your arguments in an orderly fashion, and you arrogantly state that you're right, he's wrong, end of story?

1. Get off that high horse which is probably twice your height.
2. Learn to argue, "shut up, i'm right, kthxbye" is not an acceptable rebuttal.
3. Learn to read, that trip costed nowhere NEAR 200 million dollars, and if you sincerely think it's a waste of money to extend a welcome arm to another country, scratch that, an influential country which would make a good ally, then you need to establish your priorities for this countries and it's people mate.

Edit: And btw i just finished reading this whole thread from beginning to end, i have to say i might just get addicted to this very well thought out arguments and discussions (well, for the most part )

haha Thanks Guys.....z I don't know if I deserve that but thanks anyway. Hopefully it's past since as people who were on chat will tell you I was pretty close to snapping....

[AlphaTauri]

Wow, it's like a war zone in here (er, no pun intended).

Hey guys... troops... South Korea? Screw the health care bill and vacation for just a minute, I want to know what everyone thinks of the situation involving the crazy little man in North Korea and our 28,500 ground troops out there. Does anyone feel they are necessary to deter North Korea?

I honestly don't know (apologies for not reading the news that much lately). If you ask me, 28,500 American soldiers stationed in S Korea seems a little excessive...I don't think that it's really that necessary, seeing as the US can order thousands of troops to S Korea in a matter of hours. Yes, we shouldn't let/encourage N Korea to nuke their neighbors, but military intimidation certainly isn't going to decrease tensions. Two scenarios, four outcomes:

US declares that they will not let N Korea take military action against S Korea, but doesn't send troops to S Korea:
1. N Korea attacks S Korea anyways, because the US won't want to start WWIII by sending soldiers in
2. N Korea does nothing, because they know the US can send tens of thousands of soldiers in a very short amount of time

US sends troops to S Korea to protect them from N Korea:
3. N Korea feels obligated to prove that they're not intimidated by the US military, and attacks S Korea anyways
4. N Korea does nothing, because they don't want to start WWIII since the US is now involved

[lllazar]

I understand this is a "selfish" way to think, but every time there's a threatening military conflict somewhere on the globe, that should involve the entire world, why is it always the US that is looked to, perhaps even the US itself that looks to, get involved? Now, obviously there hasn't been any military involvement yet...but don't we have our hands full in the Middle East (even though we shouldn't even be there)?

[zyzzyva980]

Well, they aren't there because NK is threatening SK... they've been there since the end of the Korean War, and have remained there, because we have this mentality from the cold war that NK is actually a threat. They aren't. And 28,500 troops aren't going to do much of anything since both North and South Korea have 5 million man reserves and a large number of soldiers on active duty.

[paleonaps]

Okay, whose the genius that brought this thread back?