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Originally Posted by EmporerEJ
You forgot to mention you get the shield of protection living next to the most powerful country on the planet gives you. No nation would ever consider "invading" Canada. (Or Mexico for that matter)
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Yeah, living next door to the biggest threat the world has known that's rapidly descending into a theocratic parliament is 'giving us protection'. Protection, 1930's New York style perhaps.
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Please tell me A: what "rampant consumerism" is supposed to mean, and B: How in your reality it adds to the problem? You sound like one of the talking heads on the evening news gibbering "techno speak."
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Go look at a dictionary to see what 'consumerism' means, troll.
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And perhaps instead of "world war II" it should read "America saving the world's ass from oppression and never getting paid back."
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Two years later and with the lions share done by the russians. You might want to do a little research about who did what at what point over there.
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Another big one you forgot:
America protects most of the world, and certainly all of Europe from the march of communism through the cold war.
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Go back to hannity and rush, troll, before you start trundling out your explanation of My Lai and why destroying the village to save it is a good thing.
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On Terrorism; America crushes the taliban's stronghold to the benefit of the rest of the world, and freedom for Afghanistan & Iraq on our nickel. (I'm sure we won't get paid back on that one either......least they could do is pay in oil, fairly)
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Afghanistan wasn't 'protection'. It was 'revenge'. Anything beyond that is merely PR or unintended consequences.
... and outside of Kabul, the taliban runs with impunity, the opium growers have increased output dramatically, and women are still stoned for not wearing a burkha. A great reward for a country that you initially used to further your objectives vis a vis the russians a couple decades ago. If anyone is owed anything, it's afghanistan being owed by the US and Russia for being their proxy battleground.
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Freedom isn't free, and America pays the lion's share.
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Keep drinking the Kool-Aid(tm) brand drink, yo.