Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it,
follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given
their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!
The Ron Paul Rally for the Republic
Posts
I'm not a Libertarian and I don't think RP, or his sidekick Bob Barr, should be president. I'm just sayin that I like his policy on foreign affairs.
All past trade agreements? Yeah. Those work.
Centuries before the US had anything to do with them they were already staunchly racist towards one another. Decades before WWII they'd already been at war a couple times. By the time WWII rolled around for the US they'd been massacring civilians. China hasn't forgotten this.
The UN only has the military of other nations to rely on. Which is why we have so much clout in the UN. Which is why we get more benefits overall from the UN than any other country. Particularly, get this, trade agreements.
And, according to you, to ever have been there since our military should only be acting defensively unless otherwise attacked. What would you have done? Take out Japan's military just enough that it wasn't a threat to us but some how enough against China and Russia?
I wasn't declaring you a libertarian, I was just asking in general.
I can swallow foreign intervention if done wisely and if our government admits mistakes and learns from them. But, really, what lessons have we learned?
I said they'd be getting along as they had been for centuries, by which I meant their antagonistic relationship. I suppose my use of "getting along" was a bit ambiguous. I've lived in one of those two countries for several years, and I know there aren't good feelings between them. That doesn't mean, in my opinion, that we should still be in Japan sixty years after WWII.
As soon as we pull out, is a Sino-Russian alliance going to invade mainland Japan? I think that's a bit alarmist. China is, right now, Japan's biggest trade partner. Japan has a technologically advanced defensive force, which would most likely be expanded were the US to leave. And, I seriously don't believe that a war between two world powers is of credible concern now.
Perhaps Russia is putting her bear face back on, but what valid proof is there that an American exodus will lead to an attack on Japan?
The Europeans fought one another since before the collapse of the Roman Empire, before there were even nations to speak of. Now they're in one big happy union. It's a different world now. China's economy relies on her trade partners, and we have the UN to mediate any disputes. While I'm not saying that war is impossible, I don't believe it's a likely threat in the near future.
This is where I really have to call bullshit.
The Republican party may be a horrible neocon led mess now, but it wasn't always. The Democrats have plenty of blood on their hands as well. It was a Democratic president, Johnson, who stepped up the US's involvement in Vietnam, and it was a Republican, Nixon, who ultimately got them out (yes, I know he wasn't perfect as far as the whole Vietnam thing is concerned, but he did get them out).
It was a Democrat, Truman, who got the US into the Korean war.
It's pretty much just from Reagan on that the Republicans have been the main instigators or that kind of shit.
I think the people of the Republic of Korea would disagree. As would our economy.
The Korean war wasn't definitively good or bad.
Fact is though that the leader in the North at the time, who'd been chosen by the people of North Korea, had agreed to have an election between himself and the leader of South Korea to unite the country. The leader of South Korea, knowing he'd lose, refused, even though his people mostly wanted to. The US backed the brutal dictator in the south because the guy in the north was a communist, and back then, they were retarded about that kind of thing.
Because of the Korean war, north korea became isolated, and to this day remains hostile towards the west.
It begins with strippers in a hot tub.
Beat that Discovery.
You keep saying this in thread after thread and then not actually demonstrating it.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
A united Korea wouldn't be bad for anyone. Right now, perhaps China lets crazy Kim stay crazy because he's a buffer between China and the US forces in S. Korea. Were the communists to have won the war, as they had in Vietnam, then Korea would perhaps be, at worst, like Vietnam. Which isn't so bad. However, with such close proximity to it's ally China, I'd wager the a Communist Korea wouldn't be so bad off. Except, of course, for the fact that it's Communist.