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Originally posted by LessinSF
Or to repeat myself, the current form of Republican is just a renamed Southern Democrat. George Bush is Lloyd Bentsen without the savvy.
Spanky: "I think Less is even more libertarian because I don't think Less would support the US getting involved in any foreign wars and he would end all zoning laws. At least that is the way he used to think."
Not quite. I have always agreed with the need for security from within and without to some degree. Now, however, I would opt for cheaper and more effective forms of addressing our enemies than the NeoCon's proven expensive and ineffective ones in Afganistan and Iraq (although nothing has been more ineffective, inefficient, ridiculous nad harmful abroad and within than the 80-year failure that is the so-called War on Drugs). I lean more towards better funded intelligence than armed services, and the use of assassination instead of the blunt instrument that is an army, navy or air force.
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2, 2 and 2. The cost of assassinating leaders is a tiny fraction of the lives and money wasted in that Iraq debacle (though I wouldn;t have assassinated Saddam anyway; throwing him out of power was an idiotic move). It's funny a country as allegedly innovative as ours can't grasp the idea of fighting fire with fire.
If they're going to take our liberties for this Patriot Act thing, well then for God's sake, use the expanded powers to secretely kill our enemies. Hide the info from me. I don't care what our govt's doing secretly and cheaply to other nation's leaders who imperil our economy and safety.
30 years ago, the US and ITT took out Allende. Now we can't even pick off a fool like Chavez.* We need to quit wasting our soldiers lives by making them work as a police force and start giving the CIA carte blanche to do what they were created to do.
That we made assassination technically illegal as part of some obscene do-goodery legislation demonstrates why a lot of people, and most politicians, shouldn't be allowed to vote.
* Yes, I recognize Chavez is not really a threat, because we can hurt him economically a lot more than he can hurt us, but I use the botched coup against him as an example of our incompetence in this area.
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