Originally Posted by Andaras

Don't worry, in a decade of so the American economy will be in the garbage heap after more pointless wars in the Middle East, America will finance them (like the Iraq War) by borrowing overseas credit, America will be so indebted to China by the next decade that half their economy will be owned by Beijing. By then China will have proper aircraft carrier fleet and improved airforce.

Originally Posted by Publius Infinitum

The 'needless' wars haven't cost the US treasurly a discernable percentage of that which has been drained by leftist policy... "The Great Society alone has cost us 8 trillion dollars and not a single goal set forth by the policy initiators has been positively effected.

Originally Posted by White Fox

Alaska, Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Midway, the Philippines, Wake Island, the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal, Cuba, the Guano Islands, and Liberia all came under American Imperial domination during the great age before the war and then after the second one. While we have foolishly allowed much of these former possessions to slip away, others have become a vital part of what America is today. The Marxist influence in the American left has caused them to denounce imperialism as "evil" even though the Soviets were the most expansionist nation in the history of the World, with the possible exception of the Mongols. Our real mistake during the Imperial age was not to fully incorporate these territories into the union, and not to give the locals the same rights as Americans. We also made the mistake of not taking all of Canada when we had the chances during the revolution and the War of 1812, and not taking all of Mexico during the Spanish-American war. Unfortunately, the international community of the day probably wouldn't let us finish these noble endeavers, but let their memory live on, proudly; it's the American way.
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Originally Posted by NoSocialism.com

Only once America takes over every country on the planet, will we truly have some level of peace.

Originally Posted by Kazan

Really? How? They technology isn't that good, they have large but poorly trained army. There economy is dependent on ours.

Originally Posted by Publius Infinitum

The 'needless' wars haven't cost the US treasurly a discernable percentage of that which has been drained by leftist policy... "The Great Society alone has cost us 8 trillion dollars and not a single goal set forth by the policy initiators has been positively effected.

To be sure the US will fail and it will fail for the same reasons that all cultures fail... Leftism and the idiocy inherent to it.

Originally Posted by BigRed

So then why don't the conservatives that tout "small government" stop it?

Because they don't want to.

And if you don't think military money hasn't added to the debt, well...

Originally Posted by White Fox

WE CAN'T STOP IT BECAUSE OF THE LIBERALS IN THIS COUNTRY.
WE DESPERATELY WANT TO STOP IT.
WE KNOW, BUT IT IS FOR OUR PHYSICAL PROTECTION.

Originally Posted by BigRed

Republicans have had majority control of Congress enough times in the past to stop it or at least, halt its progression.

But they don't care to. I'd be interested in seeing if they even put up any bill that suggests doing it.

But they don't. All lip service.

Originally Posted by White Fox

There is a distinction between a Republican and a conservative. Bush is a Republican, but not really a conservative because he likes the power of the government. If the Republican party is truly lost (which I'm not entirely sure it's not), then conservatives should vote libertarian.