02-04-2013, 12:15 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:I have to say I did like his quote "the warfare state". For me that now sums up Uncle Sam to a 't'. If you look at every war the US has started or been involved in going back to WWII, the figure must now be close to 100.
Of course, Uncle's Poodle does some of this too, but it's becoming evident in Blighty that the military can no longer be afforded and are being cut back.
....ah but that war with Granada was a tough one...it was touch and go there for a few nanoseconds.......
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass