jasoncran said:
you havent served, you take pride in your job, that's what he brought back, the military was severly demoralised after Vietnam
We were spending a good 500 billion a year on the military (more than almost all other countries combined) I doubt that a little morale issue would be that big of a problem lol, on top of that if war ever broke out it wouldn't be helpful no matter how large and inspired your military was because within 3 hrs most of the people on Earth would be dead.
jasoncran said:
you aren't aware how that russia was able to spy and violating german airspace routinely to harass us mainly or that cuba often sent migs over miami the flew low, some pilots did defect.
And that justified recklessly endangering the lives of every man, woman and child on the Earth? If they were actually going to bomb Miami it wouldn't matter because within 3hrs = global fail pwnage.
jasoncran said:
yes the soviet union caved in under the economic pressure
Yay!
jasoncran said:
but a strong defense was necessary
It's not like the Soviets
couldn't have pushed the button to end the world, back then they had more than double the nuclear weapons of the United States, it wouldn't have mattered if you had a strong defense or not lol, you would have been utterly destroyed anyway.
jasoncran said:
as russia may just have pulled our bluff, btw ever watch charlie wilson's war, we help the mujahadeen defeat russia by sending in supplies , the stinger missiles, and the cia trained them. the mistake there was we didnt help the muhajedeen rebuild government.
Aren't we arguing over Reagan's (useless) Star Wars program lol? It's not like it actually made the US any safer, the Soviets had nuclear subs, bombers, ICBMs, there's no way it would have stopped a thousand let alone 40,000 lol.
jasoncran said:
russia also had nukes, so what we should have patrol the border of germany and moved nukes to that side, it was all game of cat and mouse, nobody would have fired the shots,just harassed and may be a few conventional wars here and there.
This is what's wrong with the "A good offense is the best defense" ideology in the context on nuclear war, the only way to prevent one without recklessly endangering lives is to either start up diplomatic relations and coexist, or to starve them economically. Placing nukes all along the West German border is akin to backing a deadly poisonous snake into the corner and trying to kick it to death with your bare feet.
jasoncran said:
funny the some people like to spend money all kinds of projects yet forgets the military then when its needed and the troops dont have the equipment they go hey why dont they have that equipment. we have done this every war. the uparmor hummer been around since kosovo, along with iba vest, uav's since the 60's though primitive.
I don't think you fully appreciate the gravity of the situation.
The US almost spends more than every other nation combined on Earth on their military, almost 8% of GDP infact, and you want to complain about not enough supplies? Ignoring men (Which spending can't fix lol) if the US went up against the rest of the world it could get damn close to winning. If you want to increase troop reserve numbers then fine, but increasing the military budget isn't gonna help that at all.
jasoncran said:
do you think our pint size military would deal with an army the size of russia now?
no.
See above pie chart and laugh at how ridiculously unfounded this statement is.
Menno said:
How is it that a post about Christmas has gotten turned into another nationalistic rant?
Someone posted a nationalistic GOD & COUNTRY picture. If a mod would be so kind he could move it into a different thread
Relic said:
Because some one didn't like the Regan Christmas video and God Bless America Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus that I posted.
It reminded me of Reagan lol, which is never a good thing.
jasoncran said:
If you don't like Regan's Christmas speech then, I'm sorry.
It's not that I didn't like his speech, it's a conversation about his term in office.
jasoncran said:
I did and I don't think that just because I posted a Christmas speech that Regan made should be torn to pieces and chewed up like it's a dog bone for these people who hate americn heritage. I presented it becuase the thread is about taking Christ out of Christmas.
I said nothing of the sort. You misspelled Reagan by the way. I don't hate American heritage at all, where do you get the idea that I'm disputing that video, I've done nothing of the sort :gah
jasoncran said:
I posted how Regan kept Christ in Christmas and this guy makes a big stink about it.
I don't care what Reagan says, it's his opinion and his right to say it. Again, I wasn't talking about the speech lol.
jasoncran said:
He's a troll who hates america
I like America, it's a fairly nice country.
jasoncran said:
and thinks to believe only in revisionist history that is written by atheirst who make up lies about America and Godly men.
Point out one spot anywhere in any of my posts that I lied about anything to do with American heritage, please. I make no dispute over America having a Christian majority, it's in the polls.
jasoncran said:
They guy doesn't like Regan thinks Regan didn't have anything to do with bringing down that wall.
(Reagan is spelled accordingly) I said nothing of the sort, I just made the case that his offensive strategy wasn't the prime reason for the USSR's downfall, and that it almost resulted in a global thermonuclear war.
jasoncran said:
The revisionist don't want to give Regan credit for anything. Another thread destroyed by the trolls who come to destroy threads just because I presented a Regan Christmas video.
What exactly is a revisionist? Is it someone who tries to revise history? Because my challenge stands: find me something I said about American History that was a lie.
jasoncran said:
If you define a troll as someone who posts just to make other angry then I'm surely not one of them. I post here because I value argument and the wisdom that brings.