How Will a Culture of Permanent War Impact America's Future?

[Mr. dB]

How many Dems have presided over wars in the 20th and 21st Century?

It isn't about party, it's about ideology.

Woodrow Wilson (D)
FDR (D)
Eisenhower(R) At least he warned against the military industrial complex but on the other hand is responsible for Iran.
Kennedy (D)
Johnson (D)
HW Bush (R)
W. Bush (R)

Obama has double downed on the Bush foreign policy to the extent where Mitt agreed with all his policies but promised he would do a better job at implementing them.

You forgot Truman (D), who is responsible for The Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam.

 

[Mr. dB]

I can't help it if you don't understand a concept like that. It would be a great opportunity to discuss nexus causality and its role in our perception of events as well.

But hey, I'm sure doing a Tea Party / GOP rant is fun too. Rove sucks! Haliburton ordered the Iraq War! Blah, blah, blah.

Please. There is an evolutionary basis for abstract thought, but to extend that to saying that there is an evolutionary basis for religion is a bit much. I know you've been harping about this one for years, maybe you should present a paper on it at an anthropological convention.

 

[mrplunkey]

Please. There is an evolutionary basis for abstract thought, but to extend that to saying that there is an evolutionary basis for religion is a bit much. I know you've been harping about this one for years, maybe you should present a paper on it at an anthropological convention.

Religion is evolution's Swiss Army Knife.

 

[javaguru]

Religion is evolution's Swiss Army Knife.

IMO, it's more about authoritarianism in the higher primates with religion being an expansion of the political structure of rule by strength. Eventually the strongest male will age and get knocked off unless he has an even stronger protector that ordains his rule, enter gods.

 

[PICK3]

heathen alert!

 

[javaguru]

heathen alert!

Good to see you're back, we were worried. Next time, leave a message before you go on a walk about.

back to authoritarianism...

I see this with many atheists, they tend to elevate the state to god status.

 

[PICK3]

Good to see you're back, we were worried. Next time, leave a message before you go on a walk about.

I went on a skip about

wanted to experience an alternative lifestyle for awhile

 

[javaguru]

I went on a skip about

wanted to experience an alternative lifestyle for awhile

They didn't chain you to the glory hole at the Man Hole or Greasy Pole again? That's good to read.

 

[javaguru]

You forgot Truman (D), who is responsible for The Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam.

Can we agree post WWII foreign policy is universally dismal no matter whether the Dems or Repubs occupied the White House.

Apocalypse Now...deleted scene...

 

[Mr. dB]

Can we agree post WWII foreign policy is universally dismal no matter whether the Dems or Repubs occupied the White House.

Yes.