Quote:blackaeronaut wrote:Wow, that's the most entitled colonialist imperial bullshit I've heard... uh, today, if only because I haven't checked the news yet.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Granted, there are cuts we can be making. For one, we need to just give up on Iraq and Afghanistan - we're unwelcome there. (Although I got half a mind that says that we need to 'repossess' all the roads and schools and other stuff we built over there if they honestly feel they don't need to pay us back for what we gave them. And I ain't talking about intangible things here.)
And Ayieke, until you can tell us exactly how the hell you would 'slash military spending' then I don't wanna hear a word about it. I'm not saying that it's not possible to do so, but if you want to cut the military budget, then you'd damn well better know how and where. And don't you DARE touch my MGIB.
"Pay you back"? Really? For what? Your tons of ordinance you used killing over a hundred thousand Iraqis, maybe? Or the ordinance you used demolishing Iraq's infrastructure, want to send them a bill for that? Maybe you want to charge them for that small city you call a military base in Baghdad, that has its own electricity and water supplies in a city where civilians frequently has neither almost a decade after your invasion? Maybe they need to pay for all the CIA prisons you stuck hundreds of innocent people into to torture, more than a few of whom died in captivity? The arrogance, bigotry and lack of self-assessment required to think they owe your country something would be staggering if it weren't so depressingly common.
You are not wanted there because you are the bad guys. Your country, your army, are the ones that owe them, not the reverse.
The gall of you! Even Mussolini didn't send the Ethiopians a bill for his ammo. Americans are still ready to explode in paroxysms of hatred against Muslims and grandiose desires for vengeance against them for the actions of al-Qaeda over ten years ago (and you are most certainly no exception to that, Mr. I-think-we-should-murder-a-bunch-of-Muslims-with-pigs-blood-soaked-bullets-that'll-totally-teach-them, a statement that somehow passes for polite discourse here), but you can't comprehend that you have done far more wrong to the people in either of those countries than the entire Muslim world combined has ever done to America.
As far as cutting your country's ridiculous, bloated, useless military budget goes, there is literally no place sufficient to start. Cut it all. Cut it to the bone. Maintain a military that resembles that of any other country - it's not as if America could be successfully invaded even if they cut their military to 5% of what it is now. Or hell, maintain a military that's only twice the size of any other country's - that'd still be saving well over 10% of your total GDP, a staggering sum. And maybe then it'll actually be difficult for American presidents to just bomb whatever countries they want for a blip in the polls or the whims of corporate interests.
And if there was any justice in the world, your MGIB would be liquidated and the money sent to an Iraqi family. Or an Afghan family, or a Pakistani family, or a Yemeni family, or a family from whatever Muslim country you'll be killing people in next year. But there isn't, so it won't.