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Old 07-15-2010, 06:52 AM   #89 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aceventura3 View Post
I want world peace and people to live in freedom, they do to or did when they where active.
That's a kind way of putting it. It's all very ends-justify-the-meansy.

Because, you know, American military superiority + American hegemony = world peace and universally free peoples. It's like mathematics. Every time you do the calculations, the same answer comes up.

We can see it happening even today. Afghanistan and Iraq were like failed experiments, and now the U.S. isn't sure how to call them off. It certainly isn't sure on how to take the next step in its crusade for world peace and free peoples. Maybe all it did wrong is make a few mistakes in the math. Maybe it just needs more military and hegemony.

Maybe China has some ideas. But don't let them get too carried away. They aren't American enough. But they're working on it.
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