I disagree, Raymond. If I don't say something stupid, it doesn't give you the opportunity to be a cantankerous old git and then you would run the risk of just evaporating into the ether...
Not ridiculous at all. Every country has it's own interests to protect, without a useful and strong deterent anybody could just walk in and take what we hold dear.
I have just re-read your post Evergreen and I think that the role of peace keeper is one role played by armies along with defence of the realm.
However they are also used to quell dissatisfied population and to protect the interests of big business and dictators . So some benefit from an army whilst others are robbed by them. A soldiers job is to fight regardless of the reason. _________________ Please visit our main site
It's a pity we don't have a bit more of it here. Rioting that is.
I would agree with that!
However, governments mustn't be allowed to fall just because the great unwashed of a society feel a bit pissed off.
From watching the news reports the vast majority of the people involved in the Greek rioting seem to be young people and students - soap dodgers all.
Let's face it, it really wouldn't do to bring down a government because a few scruffy students with no real life experience are a bit annoyed because some scabby hoody got shot.
Incidentally, I haven't yet heard why the police shot him. I'd lay a month's wages and have a wild guess that he was up to no good.
Disease is meant to keep the numbers down but we manage to keep breeding like rabbits anyway.
And when you have gooky religions like Catholicism telling people to keep breeding but don't wear a condom then the simple people of Africa will do it.
armies exist so people like us can write things like this without the fear
of being dragged out our beds put up against a wall and shot. freedom of speech is a wonderfull thing indeed.
my children may never have to pick up a gun to defend their country or wear a uniform,but they are damn proud of those who do and have.
Reading this thread I see propaganda has done its job brilliantly. _________________ Magic Is. That’s all, it just is. We don’t have to create it, we simply have to find it. But where do we look? Within, first, last and always; look within.
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and how ridiculous is that
