ellsworthtoohey,
Sir, it wasn't that the other countries couldn't defeat the US government. The other countries could not defeat
the US. There's a difference, indeed.
We the people arguably ARE the government. We can argue a lot.
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UN Global Forces? ?
The UN has a hard time deciding to condemn the actions of cannibals, much less invading the country that has born much of the cost for the existence of the UN, and which is coincidentally one of the best-armed and (potentially) violently free societies ever to exist.
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I look around at my fellow employees, and sometimes wonder that my company makes money. (And make money it does!) I look around the religious organizations I was raised in, and shake my head at the hypocrisy and the scandal. I look at the sports world, and know for every star there are thousands that could compete, if they had the drive. I look around at my society. We are sheep. A few excel, a few shine; the rest follow.
If our weapons are words, I do not see how we can win the war with a dishonest foe, for they can invent new weapons instantaneously. The truth will surely ring clearly, but only for the few that will hear it. But it only takes a few. A few can seize power, but many hold it. Something to consider it.