Wow did you seriously post that? Kind of left a few democrats off that list there didn't ya bub, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter to be precise. I seem to recall an intervention that cost 49,000 American Servicemen their lives. Pretty sure Kennedy sent the first advisors there and Johnson escalated American involvement.
Granted and understood. Really more a criticism of the non trivial 9-10% of people and disturbingly high number of young people who are likely going to vote for him based on his simple platform of legalizing marijuana and other minor social changes.
I'm highly for legalization of marijuana but it's not in my top 3 or 4 federal issues facing this country.THAT IS MINOR!!????!!!!! Where the hell have you been living for the past 3 decades? The drug war has been one of the most costly devastating disasters in world history. The amount of suffering, death and crime that it has spawned has only been matched by the amount of human freedom PERMANENTLY lost due to it. It is the reason that the our rights against illegal search and seizure have been nearly completely neutered.
I'm highly for legalization of marijuana but it's not in my top 3 or 4 federal issues facing this country.
— $121 billion to arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders, about 10 million of them for possession of marijuana. Studies show that jail time tends to increase drug abuse.
Despite your confidence in your grasp of modern American history, you are wrong. Dwight David Eisenhower sent the firstPretty sure Kennedy sent the first advisors there and Johnson escalated American involvement.
1955 President Eisenhower sends first military advisors to South Vietnam to train the South Vietnamese Army
1956 At French exit the US Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) assumes full responsibility for training South Vietnamese forces
1959 First two Americans are killed during a Viet Minh guerillas strike at Bien Hoa
Granted and understood. Really more a criticism of the non trivial 9-10% of people and disturbingly high number of young people who are likely going to vote for him based on his simple platform of legalizing marijuana and other minor social changes.
What's annoying to me is the spoiler role he clearly is playing in this election when he'd be better off negotiating for inclusion of his policies by the winning camp rather than letting them die in the vine. Life ultimately is about working with other people.
Arms and nuclear proliferation is a concern especially when you're talking about small organizations that would like to cause serious harm to American interests. I can't comment on Assad. Isis at least with propaganda militarizes dissidents here to engage in terror either with small arms or with more sinister planning. Regardless these are just a few general arguments why Gary Johnsons foreign policy is very short sighted. Operatives overseas are very necessary as we don't live in isolation and our enemies are becoming harder and harder to find. Heck for reference the FBI just broke up a plot by 3 white supremacists essentially to blow up an apartment building holding African immigrants here. Under Gary Johnson I'm not sure he'd even keep the FBI around based on his rhetoric.
I'm highly for legalization of marijuana but it's not in my top 3 or 4 federal issues facing this country.
I'd put healthcare first and then the economy/wages, energy policy, education, race relations and infrastructure, and the Syria/Russia situation much higher than blanket forgiveness of marijuana.
But yes I do think it's important to stop the aggressive enforcement of marijuana, I just consider it minor compared to other issues we currently face and it's an issue that can be solved outside of federal intervention
Gary Johnson is. He did an interview with the freakonomics podcast guys where he specifically described markedly reducing the size of the US military, and pulling CIA operatives and almost all US embassy staff overseas to just the amounts needed to specifically defend immediate US borders. I almost threw my phone down in disgust. With domestic terrorists the concern is their getting their hands on stuff that can cause mass terror like biological weapons , nuclear weapons, etc again it's individuals and organizations that would do this sort of thing and thst is a much harder thing to monitor. I'm not arguing that its a huge threat but rather that pretending these people don't exist is stupid and dangerous.
Again this is the same guy who said he would get rid of the US census bureau....
Wow did you seriously post that? Kind of left a few democrats off that list there didn't ya bub, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter to be precise. I seem to recall an intervention that cost 49,000 American Servicemen their lives. Pretty sure Kennedy sent the first advisors there and Johnson escalated American involvement.
The imprisonment of more than ten percent of the population for a crime with no victim is not a big problem to you?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/13/ap-impact-years-trillion-war-drugs-failed-meet-goals.html
Hmm....yesThe imprisonment of more than ten percent of the population for a crime with no victim is not a big problem to you?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/13/ap-impact-years-trillion-war-drugs-failed-meet-goals.html
If you are worried about arms proliferation. Then the easiest way to deal with that is to stop sending over arms into war zones. You are arguing for intervention policy that has brought nothing but human catrastrophe and arms proliferation and mocking non-interventionalist policy that wont proliferate misery and weapons.
It makes no sense.
What percentage are imprisoned under federal law?
I'm 100% in support of the legalization of all drugs, not just pot, and I recognize the impact of federal policy on state policy but the main offenders are states.
And on the war against Daesh front lines.
For U.S. and Obama, Mosul campaign is calculated risk
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-usa-idUSKCN12I0AO?il=0
Seems relevant to me at any rate.
So more bombing, murder and mayhem courtesy of the United States. Yea this will turn out peachy keen...
We may not be the most evil nation to ever exist but we are doing our utmost to get into the running....
You think working with a sovereign nation to liberate one of their cities from a group of theocratic thieves, torturers, rapists, and murderers is an act of evil?
As a note, the people you say we are perpetrating evil on recently drowned about 50 people in their city for rising up against them and are executing anyone, including women and children, who attempt to flee their territory.
Iraqi Kurds are expected to play a crucial role in the battle of Mosul, which began on October 17 and is being led by Iraqi forces with some help from the U.S. While some worry about another betrayal, most still hope their reward will finally be independence—or at least greater sovereignty.
“The independence of Kurdistan is the right of our people,” Nechirvan Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish regional prime minister, told Voice of America last summer. “We will decide the extent of our borders by what has been liberated.”
You think working with a sovereign nation to liberate one of their cities from a group of theocratic thieves, torturers, rapists, and murderers is an act of evil?
As a note, the people you say we are perpetrating evil on recently drowned about 50 people in their city for rising up against them and are executing anyone, including women and children, who attempt to flee their territory.
Wasn't rescue from torturers, rapists, and murderers the same rationale your side rejected for the Iraq invasion and deposing Saddam (not to mention the WMD issue that wasn't true that time and you're not even offering this time)?
I would think that the standards for helping a nation liberate its own sovereign territory and the standards for invading a sovereign nation and deposing its government would be SLIGHTLY different. Wouldn't you?
Um right and when the kurds decide they want Mosul for themselves, you will have us bombing the Iraqi "sovereign nation" to protect the kurds. Round and round we go..... we can bomb and terrorize these people forever. We are so righteous and clean. Our superior technology proves it...
Looks like we are doing a bang-up job of planting the seeds real deep for a nice long civil war between the kurds and the Iraqi government.
I would think that the standards for helping a nation liberate its own sovereign territory and the standards for invading a sovereign nation and deposing its government would be SLIGHTLY different. Wouldn't you?
Huh? This is no way addresses my post. You said what we were doing was evil and I'm interested to hear why.
The imprisonment of more than ten percent of the population for a crime with no victim is not a big problem to you?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/13/ap-impact-years-trillion-war-drugs-failed-meet-goals.html