Building an empire

The United States has over 1000 bases spread out around the world. ONE THOUSAND!

Now think about that for a minute. 1000 'United States' military bases .... that are NOT in the United States!! Does something seem wrong with this picture?

Ask yourself just how many foreign military bases YOU would tolerate being built right here in the good old U.S.A. Would it be a safe bet that if China came over here and built JUST ONE base smack-dab in the middle of the country you'd be highly pissed??? Imagine if they built 10 bases .. or a hundred! Who the hell would tolerate that?? No one!!!!!!

Think of the cost involved in running all those bases. Just feeding all them troops!! We have like 350,000 troops scattered across the globe!! Imagine the price tag of supporting 1/3 of a million military personnel across the globe. I don't know what these numbers are .. but they must be staggering to say the least.

We have:

33,000 troops in Japan - for what?? Quality inspections on Hondas???

57,000 troops in Germany - uhmmmm, the last I heard, WWII is over, the German wall has crumbled, and the Cold war is history too. But the troops remain.

10,000 troops in Italy - No doubt a massive threat against the United States

1,500 troops in Belgium - overseeing chocolate factory terrorism ????

1,500 troops in Bahrain - where the hell is that???

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I don't know. Maybe I'm oversimplifying the whole thing, but it just seems stupid. If you look back in history of all the 'big dogs' who went around trying to take over the world, every single one of them got their ass whipped eventually. Why even bother in the first place? Not to mention how the rest of the world feels about our presence in 'their' business. Or might I add the fact that for the first time in history, we are living in the NUCLEAR age where we actually have the capability of wiping out life on the entire planet. I'm pretty sure Alexander the Great didn't quite have the capability of an atomic weapon, unless there is something about horses and swords that I don't understand.

I guess I'm not even allowed to comment on this stuff, because I live in poverty and consequently don't pay taxes. Maybe it's best that I just manage My own little country, "The State Of Les", and let the rest of the world continue with their own stupidity. That's about the only way I find happiness in the first place, not caring what anyone else is doing in the first place.

The Military

You know what pisses me off? The military!

Who the hell made us the world police? Since when did this become a requirement that our young men and women should go around the world and get killed for the sovereign rights of OTHER countries? I mean "WHO CARES", let them blow each other up, slaughter each other in the name of whatever God they think is best. Why should we let that bother us?

I think most countries that we go help either don't CARE about us helping them, OR, they don't want help to begin with. Were just NOT like them, no matter how hard we try to make them be like us, were missing one little fatal fact in the equation ..... THEY DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE US!! They have been fighting since Jesus was a baby about this or that and will continue to do so until the end of time. No "American" military police force is going to stop it, that I know.

You know what we should do? Call home every single military person BACK to the good old United States and let them live on a house along our borders. Yup, every 100 yards there will be a military family living in a house. All along the east coast, south with the Mexican border, up the west coast, and across the north with Canada. All military will live IN the United States, guarding our borders. That's what we should REALLY care about, OUR borders. Who cares about other countries, let them pulverize the shit out of each other, it's less for us to worry about down the road.

And if the day comes we get attacked, THEN we go over there and throw down some nukes and obliterate them off the planet. Let them know who there messing with. But as long as what they're doing isn't directly affecting us, then let them do what they do. I think we could save a ton of our young men and womens lives by doing this, AND make other countries in the world a lot happier as we wouldn't have permanent bases scattered throughout the world.

So all you troops out there, catch the next flight home. We've decided that in order to protect the United States, it would work better if you were actually IN the United States.


Todays RBV:

1 Corinthians 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

So women should have there head covered at all times when praying. Hmmm where have I seen idiots like this walking around? Oh yeah .. Disneyland !!