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 Jul 28 2004, 01:10 PM
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i <3 me  Group: Member Posts: 315 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 30,888  |
we're allies w/ Israel. are we allies w/ Rwanda? (i really don't know the answer to this question...that's why i'm asking)
but you bring up an interesting topic. why are we helping out Israel? yes, they're our ally (from WWII...since we helped make the nation). but what benefits are we getting from sending them billions of dollars? 1) we're losing billions of dollars 2) we're hated in the Middle East for helping Israel if it was a mutual relationship, i'd understand. but we're not getting anything out of being an ally with Israel, so i'd just cut off, or at least lower, what we're sending over there. |
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Jul 28 2004, 10:03 PM
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 Aww! ^___^ Group: Member Posts: 184 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 24,645 |
Okay I live in Japan and my Japanese teacher told us the story. After the World War 2 [I think...], Japanese people agreed to let American people to protect them. Japan doesn't want any war, violence, or anything anymore. So they let the U.S. protect them.
That's why theres military bases in Japan. I know because I'm in one... |
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Jul 28 2004, 10:13 PM
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 Dark Lord of McCandless Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761 |
No it's because we just nuked the hell out of Japan and they weren't in great shape to defned themselves.
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Jul 29 2004, 06:18 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 675 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,822 |
QUOTE(EmeraldKnight @ Jul 1 2004, 8:43 PM) Yeah.. we dont have the right, its realli stupid and arrogant of our leaders to think that.. they're building up an American Empire.. i think someone paralled this to Rome.. We shouldn't be building an Empire...because (this is what my history teacher told me) every great empire will fall someday. He said that America is kinda like Rome and its at its falling piont (because of the war and stuff) |
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Jul 29 2004, 06:22 PM
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Dark Lord of McCandless Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761 |
We are already in the Empire stage. If America ever had a Caesar who trasnformed us from Republic to Empire, it was FDR. America has been engaged in constant war since the 40s. The Republic is dead, we are living in the Empire.
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Jul 31 2004, 11:56 AM
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 TheQuietThingsNoOneEverKnows Group: Member Posts: 75 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 35,721 |
we bullies
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Jul 31 2004, 12:12 PM
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 dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
the world is our playground.
be the bully. it's cus we're arrogant, obnoxious and bigheaded. we think everyone wants to be an american. we think we are always right. |
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Aug 1 2004, 10:38 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,795 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,421 |
QUOTE the world is our playground. be the bully. it's cus we're arrogant, obnoxious and bigheaded. we think everyone wants to be an american. we think we are always right. Haha sad how true that is.. it seems like some of our political leaders have no graps of what it means to be part of the world.. they feel more as if we are the world.. |
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