JonRaymond's Comments (191)

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stewart Mill”

“No, we shouldn't have gotten involved in EITHER of them. Of COURSE this is a mess without a winning solution, that is my entire point! We stay in we inflame them, we pull out it's 10 times worse than when we went in. We should stay out of the affairs of other countries and we wouldn't have this blowback! We created Saddam Hussein to fight the Islamic Revolution. But the Islamic Revolution only existed because we overthrew their democratically elected leaders in the 50s, installing our favored dictator The Shah. Well, in the late 70s the Iranian people finally had enough of him and started a revolution. It wasn't an Islamic revolution, it was a normal freedom-loving revolution that started off exactly like the protests there this year, with normal people marching and calling on the rooftops at night. The Islamic extremists subjugated that movement and installed themselves as the new dictators. That is EXACTLY what is happening in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We create these environments where the religious extremists are able to take over the movement and install themselves in positions of power. We have handed the ENTIRE Middle East over to religious extremists. WE did that, WE made it happen. Things aren't so simple as "we need to pull out and everything will go to normal". First off, there IS no normal. Secondly, everything will go exactly opposite of what we had hoped.”

“that is a pittance when you are throwing 160 billion to the fat and pampered and another 100 billion for tax dodging and another 100 billion for offshoring... We need to get real systems in place to control and facilitate good and reasonable healthcare and have a fair and efficient tax system...WHAT IS BARACK WAITING FOR?”

“you hit the nail on the head!”

“Of course not. The leftists who celebrate Jimmy Carter's gift to the Iranian People would never want their gift to lose their stranglehold power over the hapless people of Iran. Marxist-led parasites the world over celebrate the destruction of the Freedom of the People in order to facilitate their plunder. Hence, Obama's fear of actually caring about the Persian People's freedom and personal powers (their hopes and dreams) forces him to hide behind fake words like the modernized pc Chamberlain he is.”

“black....in the black”

“Our attitude as Americans -- "I am bigger so I can ignore YOU" to the rest of the world is what created the conditions for 9/11. Its unfortunate that most Americans cannot see that the hatred that we have generated in the world is for the most part self-inflicted based on superiority and arrogance.

If the US is not careful we are going to get hit again for the same reasons that brought the nation 9/11. It will be a sad day - yet we WILL NOT be able to pretend that we didn't know. We will be able to say that we chose to ignore the information provided to us.”

“that may be the dumbest crap i have evre read. It is not the President's decision to actually release the photos, it is up to the court. Obama expressed concern for our troops, wish is his job as CIC.

We already have lots of photos that prove torture. are you blood thirsty? Please don't talk about military families feel, because I am one of them.

While I don't always agree with the President, I respect his decisions. NOBODY"S PERFECT.”

“Ok, I confess, I waited in line for make-up only to have the lady tell me I didn't need it.”

“Yes, let it all burn down. Japan (with our help) rebuilt itself after WW2. The same with Europe. At least our buildings are still standing and our infrastructure is in place and functioning for the most part. Otherwise, let it all collapse and let's start over. I'm sick to death of the bail outs and lack of transparency. And I'm only talking about our congress and senate who enabled this whole thing to happen. Don't even get me started on the banks and financial institutions!”

“Then you wouldn't have capitalism anymore, would you? These types of businesses were allowed to create new ways of making money. The credit rating system was then adjusted so that they could do it. Regulatory systems were lessened to the point of being ineffectual. There has to be accountability. AIG was making money from doing nothing and still they wanted more. This horrible greed out of a house of cards. They have helped themselves to government financing 4 times. They remain arrogant and greedy. I hope the government steps in and takes them over. Enough of this nonsense!”

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? http://www.afn.org/~govern/Prisons.html”