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Posted: Dec 17, 2022 - 1:03pm
Not a Joke, the Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah Why is the U.S. choosing to celebrate its most murderous and merciless battles in Iraq

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Posted: Dec 16, 2022 - 8:41am

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Posted: Dec 16, 2022 - 8:31am
phineas wrote: Yes, would love to see two years of 'service to community' â> I honestly think young people would be on side for that. A: what are you doing here? B: AmeriCorps/ VISTA, etc. are for just this sort of thing.

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Posted: Dec 16, 2022 - 6:06am

phineas wrote:

Yes, would love to see two years of 'service to community' â> I honestly think young people would be on side for that.

I see the signs on the highway "this stretch is maintained by XX's money" and think, "no, someone needs to get off their ass and come out here and pick up."

Instead of incarcerating nonviolent criminals, make them clean up a block for a few months, or work in a food bank, or work at a library.

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Posted: Dec 16, 2022 - 3:03am
Steely_D wrote: OTOH, all Americans should be mandated to spend one or two years in military service or the equivalent. For a large number of conscripts, military training would be cruel and unusual punishment. Health.... Might want to include a social service option. Or a play video games option.

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Posted: Dec 15, 2022 - 12:50pm
haresfur wrote: Yeah but what about my bone spurs? Ivy League educated... critical thinking about international issues won't be a problem when you need money and can't get it from US banks. NEXT....

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Posted: Dec 15, 2022 - 12:46pm
kurtster wrote: Yep, people need to have skin in the game. Makes them pay closer attention to the world and the so called big picture. Their decisions might be a little bit more enlightened as a result. Or not, as our education system is a shambles and not conducive to making critical thinkers. Yeah but what about my bone spurs?

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Posted: Dec 15, 2022 - 5:40am

Steely_D wrote:

OTOH, all Americans should be mandated to spend one or two years in military service or the equivalent.

Yep, people need to have skin in the game. Makes them pay closer attention to the world and the so called big picture.

Their decisions might be a little bit more enlightened as a result. Or not, as our education system is a shambles and not conducive to making critical thinkers.

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Posted: Dec 15, 2022 - 4:15am

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Posted: Dec 14, 2022 - 10:45am
The Empire is going down:

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Posted: Dec 11, 2022 - 6:28pm
Red_Dragon wrote: I've long thought that Heinlein's idea that two years of national service be required for full citizenship to be something considered, but have always eschewed the military side of it. Yes, would love to see two years of 'service to community' —> I honestly think young people would be on side for that.

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Posted: Dec 11, 2022 - 6:21pm
Steely_D wrote: OTOH, all Americans should be mandated to spend one or two years in military service or the equivalent. Freedumb!

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Posted: Dec 11, 2022 - 6:12pm
Steely_D wrote: OTOH, all Americans should be mandated to spend one or two years in military service or the equivalent. I've long thought that Heinlein's idea that two years of national service be required for full citizenship to be something considered, but have always eschewed the military side of it.

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Posted: Dec 11, 2022 - 6:07pm
R_P wrote: OTOH, all Americans should be mandated to spend one or two years in military service or the equivalent.

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Posted: Dec 11, 2022 - 4:19pm
R_P wrote: I think the military's difficulty in meeting enlistment quotas has pretty much everything to do with this.

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Posted: Dec 11, 2022 - 2:50pm

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Posted: Dec 7, 2022 - 10:36am

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Posted: Dec 3, 2022 - 7:28am
This one is for RP lol:

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Posted: Nov 17, 2022 - 6:58am
miamizsun wrote: âEach American embassy comes with two permanent features â a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.â â P.J. O'Rourke Ah yep.

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Posted: Nov 16, 2022 - 6:00pm
Democratic think tank plots war against Russia and China: What is the Center for a New American Strategy?

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âEach American embassy comes with two permanent features â a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.â

â P.J. O'Rourke

âEach American embassy comes with two permanent features â a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.â

â P.J. O'Rourke