02-20-2008, 12:09 AM | #61 | |
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I certainly don't intend to compare anyone on this board - or really, 99% of American citizens as a whole - to Tim McVeigh, but he was certainly fighting governmental "tyranny". (That's one of the things to be expected in a culture where so many consider government to be *the* enemy.) One thing that complicates the notion of Americans toppling their own government is that so many Americans - of so many diverse & contradictory persuasions - consider the government to be the enemy, that the likelihood of a unified force seems pretty small, to me. It seems far more likely that we'd have some smaller group of non-mainstream patriots rise up & be crushed, forever dooming any futher insurrections to terrorist status. Last edited by Ma'ake; 02-20-2008 at 12:21 AM. |
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02-20-2008, 12:32 AM | #62 |
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I will agree that we could commit genocide against the Iraqi people rather easily. Historically, this is the way you put down an insurgency. But that's not what we are talking about. We are talking about an occupying and controlling force. Where are the insurgents? Who are they among the numerous faces? Who is cooperating with them? If I kill the people I *think* are cooperating with them, won't even more people turn against me? We can't win against guys in freaking turbans and bath robes LIVING IN CAVES, and you think it's a piece of cake to take on and occupy America. YOU ARE AN IDIOT MY FRIEND. |
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While I don't disagree with your premise, I think the bathrobes and caves stuff is not very persuasive. In fact, the very nature of their lifestyle maeks it even easier for them to resist. Amercians are soft and many would be unwilling to endure the rigors of resistance. "Stop shooting at us or we will take away your cable TV." It would take a while for us to toughen up, or to have the non-tough be winnowed out.
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Sad that youand Maake, fundamentally, don't believe in the power of the people, specifically Americans, to fight for their own liberty against an oppressor on their own land. |
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My understanding is that the military's job is to protect the country and it's citizens, not to protect the government. If the citizens decide that the government is tyrannical, I'd guess that the military would be on the side of the citizens.
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