“Its fifth shackle is that it can't do simple arithmetic--in war or at home.”

Let me see:

X number of terrorists – 1 dead terrorist (or imprisoned too) = fewer terrorists right?

But I might have to get someone from Harvard, Yale (you know, the Ivy league schools, the only places where smrt people come from, just ask the Democratic Parties leadership about THAT one) to prove that one for your satisfaction.

What else…ooo…more money in the hands of people means more money flowing through the economy right? Unless the people are too scared to invest because the media keeps telling them the sky is falling (which only happened under Bush, therefore it was Bush’s fault right?).

Oh, and here is another one:

National Tax Income – Democrat policies intended to keep them in favor = less money for body armor and APCs right?

I love how the media tries to blame Bush for that too. No. It is Democrats who want to cut military spending (except when it suits them and they have enough publicity) and pay for other pandering projects. Republicans want to increase military funding, at the expense of the pandering projects. But people like being pandered to (see FDR), so the constant increases in pork-barrel projects just hurt the military. I think that is pretty simple math.

Being an engineer, I might be able to do some math. Care to give me any? Mind, this has to be simple math, like how many Democrats does it take to screw in a light bulb.


“From the book I quickly concluded the guy has a serious Western superiority complex that seriously erodes the quality of his writing. It has that stench of colonial racial superiority.”

Ah yes…and racial superiority is only held by white males, who happen to go to church and stay married to their wives right? China is so wonderfully open and friendly! Just ask Tibet. I hear it is lovely in the winter when Chinese tanks go home. Or Japan? Isn’t gaijin an insult there?

I think that covers what I wanted to say about Red’s points.

And why am I reminded of Wasabi’s signature?

Azi

Sorry about the multiple posts, but the computer was having troubles with some math symbols.