[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

[Demon Buddha]

Jeff Harding wrote:
> 
> We dole out money to most of the countries that criticize us. If we
> don't do anything about their problems, we aren't "doing our share" in
> the world.  If we do something we are imperialist pigs.  Can't win if
> you are dealing with people. Many of the societies that want us
> destroyed exist in modern terms because of us. Even a cur dog is
> grateful to it's benefactor.

	[snip]

	It's interesting.  I completely agree and disagree with this
	all at the same time.  It has occurred to me that the reason
	for this is because the issues are such a tangled mess of
	truth, lies, fiction, and the real, that any of it can be
	true from a certain POV and false from another.

	The world is a tangled mess, and that would be OK if it were
	not for the horrific capabilities of mechanized warfare.  In
	the "good old days" you had to get right up and personal to
	kill someone, most of the time.  Today, John and Harry get a
	launch order, authenticate on some incarnation of the CRM,
	turn two keys simultaneously, and five million people are
	dead 40 minutes later and nine thousand miles away.  Call me
	a fag, but that just scares the pants off me.