> Dirty Iluvatar wrote:

>Breeding fear is just a tool used by all sides.>

True. But I'm more sympathetic towards it if it empowers the country rather than interests groups. Most interest groups are parasites to our political system.

But I will say that environmental groups typically just want power. They play on the fears of the people to pass through legislation that benefits them, without really having an effect on global warming. For example, they would have a greater effect on reducing global warming by exchanging technology with China rather than demanding that a coal power plant must be substituted with an alternative that only raises costs. To give an example, ethanol. Those aholes who pushed for ethanol need to stfu. It's inefficient and raises food prices.

I'm surprised nobody has called me insane lately. I mean, I'm not motivated by ideology so much, but I think ruthless action needs to be taken for the US to remain a major power.

> Chris_Balsz wrote:

> oh right yeah, he couldn't beat the shit out of 30 million Asian commies with 250,000 troops and 1% of GDP, but he kicked the shit out of east timor...

good thing he had his priorities down>

Oh he was doing great against them. He expanded the war in to Cambodian territory that was being used by the Viet Cong for military operations. He gave them no safe haven, and we were close to victory. The problem was that the war had endured for too long under the liberal noobs (Kennedy/Johnson) and it's hard to continue fighting prolonged wars. By the time Kissinger exercised any real power, he was already constrained by popular discontent for a prolonged war. That was a challenge even the best of us would have had trouble contending with, and given his limits I think he did great cutting our losses.

... He reacted appropriately to just about every circumstance he encountered, which were many. To name one example, he pwned Chilean commies. Despite being boggled down in Vietnam, he devised effective strategies to eliminate threats from our peripheral zone, like Chile and East Tumor.

He was so effective at it, that today Liberals fear his name and want him tried for war crimes. What Kissinger did, Bush and now Obama were/are too chicken to do. Kissinger did what was necessary. If he was still the Sec of State, Hugo Chavez would have been taken care of long ago.

Think about it. Liberals fear Kissinger. They laugh at Bush.

Says a French idiot.

I'm conservative and I do not believe in God. I also think government exists because there's demand for its services, and it's more practical for some services like defense and administration to have a monopoly.

My entire conservative philosophy can be summarized with four points:

-Poor people are stupid and need to be controlled with an iron fist
-The free market and self reliance must be the economic policy
-Only people who reach a certain income or educational attainment should be allowed to vote
-Practical considerations must come before moral or ideological ones

> Schniepel wrote:

> before anyone was hurt? at least 5 people died.. 7 more in serious condition...>

"anyone else." The number of people could have been much higher.

Avo,

And that's a selfish motivation. Altruism means that you are servicing others without the expectation of a reward, whether it's material or emotional. The people who claim to be altruistic are liars and often motivated by power. The people who claim to be altruistic also tend to service others on a massive and organizational scale.

Germany did that. It worked great too. We could adopt the Euro, although I wonder what the Europeans would think of that haha.