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A lot of people wish that the USA would mind their own business and let other countries handle their own business. There are lots of pros and cons but I look at it like this:
Say you buy a lot in a normal middle-class neighborhood and build a nice upper-class house with a nice yard. Everyone looks at your house and ooohs and aaahs and wishes they had the same thing.
Years pass with only a few disruptions. The dog next door barking, the neighbor who mows his lawn at 8am saturday morning, the kid down the street who drives by with the stereo blasting.
After years of settling in you decide that you love your home and vow never to move.
Some years later the neighborhood starts to decline. The houses around you are not taken care of. Hoodlums and thugs move into the area. Some of the houses become crack houses and whorehouses. Some of the undesirables in the hood creep over your fence onto your nicely manicured lawn in the middle of the night and steal some of the plastic pinks flamingoes around your fountain. You wonder if next time they might steal your expensive grill or *gasp* actually break into your house and threaten the safety of your family.
You sit on the porch one morning, shotgun across your lap, and survey what has become of the one nice neighborhood you moved into all those years ago. You realize how you must look to all of those people outside your 12 foot tall electric security fence topped with barbed wire. A shining example of luxury and decadence in the midst of a slum. No wonder they all want what you have. They are poor and you are not. You have nice stuff and they do not. You know they will be coming for you soon.
You go inside and look in the phonebook for a company that sells automatic chain guns with remote targeting systems.. they will look good on top of your fence.
This is your house and you are not going to let anyone violate it's sanctity and threaten the safety that you have created for your family.
America is kind of like that house. If we want to maintain what we have we have to protect it or we might as well open the doors and let anyone from the hood come in and take what they want. Do or Die..
and lately the thugs in the hood have been casing the joint. They may not want the crystal chandelier hanging in the foyer, but they dont want us to have it either, especially when they are having to scrape to buy bread, cigs, and those tasty 40s. Seeing us with nice stuff just reminds them of how much they DONT have. It makes them mad. Makes them want to take the nice stuff away from us. Makes them want to burn our house down. That's why we have to protect ourselves. If that means helping to police the neighborhood then so be it. If we have the funds to pay for the manpower and weapons needed to make the place safe then that is our right. We also can create jobs and give back to the hood in the hope that it will help the community prosper and maybe some of the thugs will forget about our house when they can afford one of their own. Of course there will always be some people who would just rather steal someone elses house than work for their own. Those are the ones we need to worry about.
Does that make any sense? Yes? No? Maybe? Well, welcome to Planet Earth lol
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