"I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into Iraq?,' I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies....' Could we have managed that threat by means other than a direct military intervention? Well, maybe we could have."
- Richard Perle former chair of the Defense Policy Board, and one of the key advocates of the invasion of Iraq.
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webbee Member
Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
The odd thing about our history is how it repeats itself. Enemy on the radar scope, the enemy vanishes, surprise attack, a people blinded with rage... it's all the same just a different generation and a new way of hiding the ugly truth from ourselves.
While we become more communist the communist becomes more capitalist but the terrorist will always remain in all of us as dictated by our need for survival and preservation of our way of thinking. Yes we are capable of greatness but that greatness is always a result of our desire to be dominent over another. You say landing a man on the moon was "man kinds greatest achievement" while that is true in part it was an American who did it. And what of man kinds greatest achievement, what is the legacy? Techonlogy now used to dominate the world? Smaller video cameras at all intersections, predator drones, smart weapons. I'm not forgetting the good but there is a saying I use. "It's not the good that we do that gets recognised because that is to be expected of us at all times."
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The ROK Member
Posts: 433 From: Birmingham, AL Registered: Aug 2006
"How it ended up in my bathroom wasn't really important. what WAS important, was that there I was, with a razor, a full can of shaving cream, and a dazed penguin."-Fierorumor
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Bruno Mid Engine Member
Posts: 250 From: Central Washington Registered: Nov 2006
Your life. It's no one elses, and therefore cannot be dictated on the whim of someones personal belief on how they you should live it, as long as it does not hurt another." - Boondawg
Yeah... front of the line material..
Man.. there have been quite a few recently. Love this stuff.. Its mind candy!
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There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship's smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'. When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone. I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb.
Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
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dguy Member
Posts: 2416 From: Beckwith Township, ON, Canada Registered: Jan 2003
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. - -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1972- )
"The authority wants you to remain delierious so they can manuver with impunity. I see one individual being carted away and the authorities making sure you see that everything is fine and telling you that the "delierious man" wont be bothering you anymore and you, you are just happy as a pig in a poke."
------------------ As a free man living in a free country.... May I ask... What am I free to do IN THIS "FREE" COUNTRY?
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fogglethorpe Member
Posts: 4828 From: Valley of the Sun Registered: Jul 2001
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom." -The great Milton Friedman
"When the blind man found his sight he discovered the world. There are three planes of existance. The one we live in, the one we like to live in and the third is one we will never live in as much as we would want. We choose one but we live in two yet exist in all three for a short time." -
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webbee Member
Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
"The authority wants you to remain delierious so they can manuver with impunity. I see one individual being carted away and the authorities making sure you see that everything is fine and telling you that the "delierious man" wont be bothering you anymore and you, you are just happy as a pig in a poke."
"Stop taping this or I'll break your camera & throw you in jail!" ~Power With Something To Hide~
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Mike Marden Member
Posts: 432 From: Fernandina Beach, FL Registered: Aug 2006
"When the blind man found his sight he discovered the world. There are three planes of existance. The one we live in, the one we like to live in and the third is one we will never live in as much as we would want. We choose one but we live in two yet exist in all three for a short time." -
I see, said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw!
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Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. William Tecumseh Sherman
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. W. C. Fields
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webbee Member
Posts: 1149 From: Los Angeles, Ca. USA Registered: Jun 2000
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." --Bertrand Russell
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Firefighter Member
Posts: 1407 From: Southold, New York, USA Registered: Nov 2004
Red Forman: Without rules, we all might as well be up in a tree flinging our crap at each other.
Michael Kelso: One day, I'm gonna open a restaurant, and everything on the menu is gonna be special. So, when somebody comes in and says "Hey, Kelso, what's special on the menu?", I can say "Everything."
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