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Originally Posted by Rochard
I've watched NCIS work before. For the most part they are no different than your local police detectives. I find it hard to believe that anyone at that level would make people "disappear". If the government wanted to do that, I'm sure they could do it. At the same time, I don't believe that kind of crap goes on - if so, there would be a lot more people missing.
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I don't know about people going missing, but I'm sure it happens from time to time. My comment was more about the government running people down abroad.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
What empire building? We are pulling out of Iraq, and Afghanistan holds no interest to anyone. I think the concept of "empire building" went out with WWII.
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We have well over 100 military bases around the world. For what?
And as the troops pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, there will be bases left behind occupied by our troops.
Lets also not forget, as troops are pulled out, the government is paying private military companies to go in and take over. So while we won't have many "American soldiers" on the streets there, we will have "American mercenaries" who have taken their place. But mercs don't make the news, so no one will care about that or the atrocities they will be involved in.
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Originally Posted by munki
Have you renounced citizenship?
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Not yet. Renouncing is the easy part, getting a 2nd citizenship is the difficult part. Unfortunately, you can't do one without the other. However, I'd like to make it happen within the next 5 years. But I have been setting up life on the ground and putting my ducks in a row. It's just the passport that is the last hurdle. Unfortunately, I don't make the kind of money needed to make it happen as fast as I'd like.
I didn't used to think I would ever want to renounce my US citizenship, but these days it's painfully clear that the country is heading in a direction I want nothing to do with. I am not proud to tell people I'm American anymore, and I find that a bit shameful. Americans are also not the most favorably looked upon abroad these days. It's amazing what a decade can do to a reputation.
However, I'm
very thankful I was raised in what was at that time a great country, but now that I have a choice, I just want to be left alone and not have to worry about whatever shenanigans come from the USA. All of this nonsense has happened more or less in a decade. I can't imagine what another decade or two is going to do to the country, and heaven help everyone there if another attack is successfully pulled off on American soil. Of course I don't hope that happens, but I believe it inevitably will.