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US Navy shoots down Iranian passenger jet
Insurrectionary warfare is fought by guerillas or resistance fighters or "freedom fighters" against an outside invader. Tactics involve ambushes, engaging in regular skirmishes, general harassment and sabotage. Guerillas take advantage of local support and their superior knowledge of terrain to erode the will to fight of the invaders.
Anti-insurrectionary warfare attempts to divide, isolate and destroy pockets of resistance. Cutting off lines of supply is crucial, and attempts are made to befriend the locals while trying to make the guerillas appear as the enemy. To this end invaders generally first employ propaganda against local inhabitants and when that invariably fails they attempt to coerce them with economic sanctions, or the supplying or withholding of necessary medicines. Next invaders destroy their homes and/or kill the locals en masse, ie. women and children, and the elderly.
Keeping that in mind, I suggest that the USofA was primarily established by anti-insurrectionary warfare. (In this case, a 'cleansed word' for genocide.)
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George Carlin - Pro-Life is Anti-Woman
Hey! Good job of asking me a question and then being generous enough to answer it for me too!
If you return to my original post you will see that, in reply to your statement "Life has to be defined at conception" I replied:
"No it doesn't; not if by "life" you mean individuated living personhood; not in any legal or moral sense it doesn't. Why should it? Just because you say so? I'm not convinced."
So the question is both about personhood, in the legal sense, which is bestowed upon birth, and about humane medical treatment for unwanted pregnancies. Go and research what disinterested MEDICAL DOCTORS have written of the ethics around the question of abortion beyond the first trimester.
US Navy shoots down Iranian passenger jet
US Navy shoots down Iranian passenger jet
I don't accept the premise that a demilitarized USofA would suddenly be open to attack* from other nations, but certainly the USofA would not be quite so able to throw its weight around everywhere else in the world, economically and politically, if it were not for the massive US military. But that's a question different from my immediate concern.
*I think it was Deng Xiopeng (sp?) who laughed out loud when asked, considering China's 30 million soldiers or some ridiculous number, whether China could, hypothetically, invade the United States. To paraphrase: "Nobody can invade the United States. There are ___ million guns..."
Anyway... Large powers generally don't attack one another. They invade tiny countries like Grenada and Panama.
US Navy shoots down Iranian passenger jet
Not to pick on you, kronosposeidon; actually I raise the question because you seem like a thoughtful person; but what do you really mean that you are proud to serve your country? Are you saying that you basically agree morally with US exceptionalism and the imperial project, and are proud to have played a minor role in keeping the rest of humanity at bay through the constant threat of military force?
Do you think American lives are more valuable than the lives of people in other countries?
Who did you serve?
John Taylor Gatto - State Controlled Consciousness
Once grown and in the workforce the masses are subjected to now varying forms of "Scientific Management," or "Taylorism."
For further reading I suggest Antonio Gramsci's Notebook 22.
Here's an overview: http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-gram.htm
What's wrong with the youth of today?
George Carlin - Pro-Life is Anti-Woman
Nine month old fetuses are never aborted, except in extreme cases where the mother's life is gravely threatened by the impending birth. Abortions occur in the first trimester.
"Life has to be defined at conception."
No it doesn't; not if by "life" you mean individuated living personhood; not in any legal or moral sense it doesn't. Why should it? Just because you say so? I'm not convinced.
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Should Corporations Have The Rights Of An Individual Person?
The Tank Man.
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Anarchism in America
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