avcQdUqZESkrikC 68 days ago Quote('384318','88','6','3415')">Report spamfor two years there 3000+ known Chinese spy teams in the US. They especially are skeieng submarine damping (how to quieted a subs noise) and satellite transfer of information. It was quiet a stir when Congress was informed that China could best us in a war and that North Korea could in all likelihood pull a draw. What bothers me is both countries might suspect that and wonder but to hear it from us should really make their day. Read these kids in here who eventually get their information from old John Wayne movies or think we could just nuke our way out of a situation. Chairman Mao dared use to use the bomb knowing full well that for us to use enough to do any good would poison the earth and they would still have men in the field. I remember when in Nam troops were massing and despite everything we had and threw at them they were still able to over run our bases. When I invited Westmoreland to visit and in his speech he disclosed he had contemplated using nukes and for the exact reasons I have mentioned he decided he could not have used them. As Eisenhower's warned in his January 17, 1961; Farewell Address to the Nation we have been sold a song and dance. We have a nuclear submarine and find out that Russia and China make a sell a diesel sub for a quarter of the cost that will do everything ours does. War games with India ended up with them beating our pilots and were justification for us buying the new F-22 Raptor. (I sort of thought if all things were equal or they had older planes and still beat us the answer was not a new plane but better training. During the Army President Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex and its potential to take over the country. We're ignoring his admonition. Congress won't let us close military bases to save money. Worse yet, Congress is spending trillions of dollars on weapons systems, the next fighter jet, national missile defense, more aircraft carriers and nuclear missile submarines. The justification for this gorging on weaponry is to defend against the dangers of $1.49 box-cutters. What we really need, and what the CIA is advertising for, is Americans who speak Arabic. At least the CIA seems to understand what John Locke put so succinctly some 300 years ago, The best fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”.There are three lessons for us: (1) In the losing of a war, the government's appetite for 19-year-olds is insatiable. (2) Military spending naturally increases at the unit level and therefore in the aggregate. Commanding officers always say, Spend whatever's left or they'll cut our budget next quarter”. (3) National leaders engaged in militarism lie often. In 1972, I was headed in harm's general direction, believing in the domino theory and the need to stop communism. I read the Pentagon Papers. I then knew that we were fighting a war that could not be won. In Vietnam, tens of thousands of 19-year-olds laid down their lives for presidential lies. And now the current administration delivered the ultimate, lie. The CIA Officers have stated that the “White House” altered the data given them and that what they presented Congress as reason to invaded Iraqi was a lie. That they (the CIA Officers were threaten with loss of employment and jail if they intervened. Everyone is familiar with the brave CIA officer who in the waning days of 2006 stepped forwarded at the news conference and spoke and was arrested and has not been seen or heard from again.For me, the worst symptoms of the new dominance of militarism can be seen everyday and everywhere here in America. Millions of people seem to equate greatness with military strength, proudly asserting that America is the most powerful nation the Earth has ever seen . Certainly billions are being spent on advertising to make the point. There's the U.S. Army-sponsored drag racer, Tony ( Sarge ) Schumacher. Or the Marines' TV commercials, which make it, seem as if their job were a video game. The absolute worst symptom is that Forbes has named Northrop Grumman 2003 Company of the Year. And that weapons maker's corporate slogan, so heavily advertised, is, Northrop Grumman, defining the future . Defining the future!There is one more issue that the Rush and Hannity team always leave out. Our national debt that these numbskulls push by advocating war and to escalate is being paid for by China. Republicans always argue that taxes are a sin and need to be cut. That to me just shows how dumb they are! Anyway China holds more of our debt than anyone. I know you will not believe that so please check it out and when you find out it is true promise you’ll warn everyone.Perhaps history is over if a weapons maker is defining the future. Still, let's hope we have some history yet to go. Let's hope that teachers, scientists, journalists, philanthropists and, yes, we the people can reclaim our rights to define our own future. God Bless You and Our Southern People.
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