NorthernGent -> RE: Obama Ends War On Terrorism Declares Americans The Enemy (7/9/2010 12:41:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Looking back at the twentieth century, there was World War I in the teens, the twenties went through with no major war There's a miconsception here....soldiers who fought in WW1 weren't tired of violence...nor were those who were on the sidelines such as students.... The Russian Civil War was as bloodthirsty as anything that happened on the Eastern Front......German ex-soldiers scrapped with Poles all along the new Eastern Frontier....the British Army were ruthless in their suppression of the Irish and in the Middle East...the violence of WW1 didn't end on November 11th 1918....people developed a taste for blood......it's opportunity that delivers peace..not countless years of war..... then you had World War two that started in the thirties and went through 1945, in the fifties we had korea, in the sixties and seventies we had Vietnam, a couple of short wars in the middle east, and in the eighties there was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in the 90's we had the 1st Gulf War, the nice little war going on in what used to be Yugoslavia, then in the first decade of the 21st century we have the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the beginning of recorded history, there has never been a sustained period of peace anywhere on the planet. That is at least 4510 years! You really think that one war, that epitomizes all that his terrible about war would actually bring about a world government? More likely it would exterminate 3/4's of the earth's population, leave isolated pockets of humanity trying to survive and technology in the toilet. Granted, maybe human would rebuild and build a better world with less pollution etc, but the odds are they will most likely rediscover all the wonderful ways to kill each other.
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