Glenn Beck

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Princess Doreen

Of course it's a silly view - I meant it to be silly in response to your saying you want to keep the money spent on Israel at home.

And the isolation practice of the 1800's worked then, but it's not going to work now. To compare the two times is history is ludicrous.

No one is afraid of America anymore because we've lost our desire to actually dig in and fight a war. Why the heck fight a war if we're not in it to win it. Stay the heck home, save money, and save lives.

Borders should be secured north and south - not as an affront to either nation but as a means of keeping America safe. We're not back in the days when crossing borders was no big thing. But we have terrorists, drug runners, and convicted criminals escaping justice who need to be stopped cold in their tracks. It just isn't the same USA prior to 1979 when all hell broke loose and the USA humiliating itself by not taking a firm stance from day one of the Iran Embassy takeover. We've been treated as weak and pushovers ever since, and we haven't done much to prove that we're not.

So we should act tough with a strong military, but be a big softie when people come calling for money? What exactly does that do for average Americans other than cost a lot of money?

We don't need to act tough anymore. The age of imperialism is long but over. The country should worry about what goes on inside our borders and forget about what the kooks in desert lands on the other side of the globe think of us. There is a select culture that will always hate us for being America and there's absolutely no chance that will ever change.

[Princess Doreen]

Originally Posted by philcski

So we should act tough with a strong military, but be a big softie when people come calling for money? What exactly does that do for average Americans other than cost a lot of money?

We don't need to act tough anymore. The age of imperialism is long but over. The country should worry about what goes on inside our borders and forget about what the kooks in desert lands on the other side of the globe think of us. There is a select culture that will always hate us for being America and there's absolutely no chance that will ever change.

You're putting words in my mouth that I never said. We can be tough and still have a heart. And, I'm not as afraid about "kooks in other lands" as I've become of the "kooks in D.C.", and not all of them are Democrats.