More Sickening Than Goatse, Tubgirl, and 2G1C Combined

By Daniel Miessler on January 4th, 2008: Tagged as America | Government | Politics | Security

FUD.

If any of these militant Christian candidates get elected (especially Guliani) they’re going to start a war. A big one. Neocons encourage terrorism. Religious extremism encourages violence.

As a realist I recognize the need to maintain (and constantly modernize) our military capabilities, but we have to combine that with a drive to stop using them. Our reputation and respect in the world’s eye is what keeps us safe — not having more weapons.

In security terms we need to stop increasing the numbers of those who want to hurt us rather than (stupidly) trying to stop them from being able to hurt us. Nice guy. Big stick. But nice guy first.

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Comments

  • john

    Sometimes you need to leave your country to defend it. We cant just stand at our border and defend it like that, because our enemies dont fight conventional wars. "one designed to stay at home and defend" is a not realistic.

  • ya, we should have a strong miliary..but one designed to stay home and defend rather than go abroad and invade. South Korea was better defended on 9/11 than NY.

  • The title is wrong.

  • Carl M

    Nader. (enough said)

  • I don't think Obama would be bad. Just not good.


    But that's the question -- go with someone decent like Obama (which Kucinich recommends), or write in Paul?

  • perhaps this commercial is why The Iowa Independent ranks Ron Paul above Rudy Giuliani


    Sucks that Mike Huckabee appears to be the clear favorite. I don't want a Jerry Falwell wannabe in the white house.


    The other day my dad said that if I "wasted" my vote on a write-in for Ron Paul, I may as well be voting for a democrat. If it's between Huckabee and Obama, I don't think I'd have a problem with that.

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