Originally Posted by
Oddquine
Why would we need a huge defense if we are not offensive? Which country has made verifiable threats to bomb or invade us in my post 1947 lifetime? Sure the Government says everybody is out to get us (or the USA) and we should be feart, very very feart....but the intelligent would assume that, if we leave other people alone, they'll leave us alone. The one sure fire way of needing a defence is to go on the offensive, both militarily or via sanctions, against countries who have not harmed us, just in case they will some time in the future when/if they have the means to do so. It does however, seem more than a little hypocritical of us in the West to be trashing foreign countries, mostly Muslim, while at the same allowing, facilitating and even conniving with Israel in their complete ignoring and circumventing of every international law on the books to steal land which is not theirs, create quasi-concentration camps in that land which is not theirs and their blithe ignoring of the nuclear proliferation treaty with not one sanction applied. (If ever a country really needed to be smacked about the head by the playground bullies to make it behave better, it is Israel.)Seems to me the only countries which dream up spurious justifications to invade/attack are the USA and the UK. It may be because the USA was formed by people like us, and it was people like us who spent a century or two trashing other countries for their resources, so perhaps our governments appear to still have this mindset that considers imperialism is still appropriate in what is now a different world and believe they are still entitled to do what they will, as long as they themselves, as individuals, don't suffer the consequences.....and perhaps even benefit.