tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2350794731231345636..comments2024-03-28T09:56:06.298-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: SimplificationGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-46867397765448690022012-11-10T18:18:37.015-05:002012-11-10T18:18:37.015-05:00At this point, America won't regain any sembla...At this point, America won't regain any semblance of "working politics" until somebody has the guts and means to execute 50% of the corrupt bureaucracy, right then and there. And given recent events, that just makes the inevitable, more close to the current time stream.Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-26546282001812031852012-11-10T18:17:03.844-05:002012-11-10T18:17:03.844-05:00Well, people will get the civil war they wanted so...Well, people will get the civil war they wanted so hard to avoid, in part due to not taking necessary precautions before it got this bad. Oh well. If people really wanted to test their ability to survive in a civil war, they now have the chance. Whether that be a post apocalypse setting or a post depression setting remains to be seen.<br /><br />That hit on Petraeus was pretty well done too. Classic Axel Rodd Chicago precautionary hits.Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-77290459433918403002012-11-08T11:12:21.391-05:002012-11-08T11:12:21.391-05:00I see Venezuela and Greece in our future. I hope ...I see Venezuela and Greece in our future. I hope and expect to be dead before the change is complete.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-47183853651067692242012-11-07T19:17:36.827-05:002012-11-07T19:17:36.827-05:00I don't see the decrease in spending, just a c...I don't see the decrease in spending, just a change in what we spend for,entitlements over military being one set. Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17717382843550131146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-44629590622934968212012-11-07T16:28:18.534-05:002012-11-07T16:28:18.534-05:00So, yeah. Bring everybody home. Reduce the size of...<i>So, yeah. Bring everybody home. Reduce the size of the military. Go right ahead. Let's stop playing some sort of world policeman. </i><br /><br />That kind of isolationism didn't work after WWI, either. Today, though, it'll be far more dangerous. With today's technologies and weaponry, a Pearl Harbor will destroy us--we'll have no time to rebuild our own weapons systems, no time to convert (to build from scratch) our manufacturies to produce the necessary weapons systems, no time to train the soldiers to operate the weapons systems, no capability to respond. The first, and second, blows will eliminate us as a polity and as a society; our smoking ruins will go the way of Carthage.<br /><br />We need to keep a large military establishment, keep it well-trained and heavily equipped, and keep serious establishments Over There, to draw the fire, so we can respond. Over There establishments won't proof us against terrorist nuclear strikes in our homeland, but they'll help.<br /><br />I sense a lot of defeatism in the air. This, though, is a generational struggle. It won't be won by a single election (2010, which was a wave election), nor will it be lost by a single election (2012, which was not a wave election). The next four years are going to be ugly, but we need to stay in the fight--we need to continue to carry the fight to them, not respond to their actions. <br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-32422539954220367932012-11-07T15:17:46.299-05:002012-11-07T15:17:46.299-05:00It's not that they are unwilling to deal with ...It's not that they are unwilling to deal with the entitlement issue. It's that they are trying to make the U.S. an entitlement state. They'd just as soon get rid of the military entirely, as it stands in the way.RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346484258194484053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-46603695035831646402012-11-07T13:11:39.782-05:002012-11-07T13:11:39.782-05:00
Barter.
William sends.<br /> Barter.<br /><br /> William sends.Williamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-55735595138247777312012-11-07T12:08:32.180-05:002012-11-07T12:08:32.180-05:00Well, the US tried dumping the military after WWI....Well, the US tried dumping the military after WWI. That didn't work out. <br /><br />After WWII, (which was, obviously more destructive), the US decided that it had to keep the big military, (and troops quartered on our defeated enemies) and the long cold war struggle kept the thing going. <br /><br />Really, everybody was looking for a way to downsize their militaries after '91 and that did happen in many places. <br /><br />The terror war can be managed in a lot of ways, and increasingly, it looks like the oil in the mideast isn't that important after all. <br /><br />So, yeah. Bring everybody home. Reduce the size of the military. Go right ahead. Let's stop playing some sort of world policeman. <br /><br />I do not think that will end well, but only time will tell. <br />Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.com