I do not believe in giving authority carte blanche to do as it wishes. The only time I allow for things to be done by authority (no questions asked until later) is in the theatre of war. Why? Because I have experience in the theatre of war and I understand how wars are fought, both on the battlefield and off.
War is not a court of law. You do not give the opposing team access to the same information you have so they can mount a better defense.
Members of the Senate have access to the same information the President has. We have three co-equal branches of government.
If this war were really all about oil and record profits for Haliburton the Senate would have already cut funding and ended the war.
That's nice Steve. Anyone else want to give this kind of power to government?
Oh, and from your article: "One lesson we learned from 1815 is that if you allow the federal government to grow, then, like any weed, it will." Once you allow the government to do something outrageous like wage a war with "no questions asked until later", what follows is a declaration of everlasting war. This "War on Terror" will last as long as the government tells us. Since the beginning, we've seen the doctrines bleed over into the development of the Homeland Security Department, warrantless wiretaps, rendition of innocents, government monitoring of mail and email, and so on. If we leave the questions for later, we'll end up with an authoritarian police state.
But I suppose we should trust your military judgment. You were in the Army from 1991-1995. I'll bet that gave you a lot of policy experience. What rank did you have when you mustered out? E-3? Maybe E-5? Somehow, I'm not willing to trust your vast military experience to tell me I should let the government shoot first and ask questions later.
Does the quote, "We have always been at war with Eastasia." mean anything to anyone?
Here I was thinking nearly the same thing about your response.
If you are going to make a derogatory statement about someone you should at least be man enough to back it up. Or is my grammar so bad you can't figure out what I am saying?
See, that's what I was talking about. Does anyone else have a foreboding sense of deja vu? Bromley, are your classmates at all concerned that they'll eventually need a draft for this?
Dodging crossfire here, joe, I don't even think most people are more concerned about what day it is.
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I do not believe in giving authority carte blanche to do as it wishes. The only time I allow for things to be done by authority (no questions asked until later) is in the theatre of war. Why? Because I have experience in the theatre of war and I understand how wars are fought, both on the battlefield and off.
War is not a court of law. You do not give the opposing team access to the same information you have so they can mount a better defense.
Members of the Senate have access to the same information the President has. We have three co-equal branches of government.
If this war were really all about oil and record profits for Haliburton the Senate would have already cut funding and ended the war.
Oh, and from your article: "One lesson we learned from 1815 is that if you allow the federal government to grow, then, like any weed, it will." Once you allow the government to do something outrageous like wage a war with "no questions asked until later", what follows is a declaration of everlasting war. This "War on Terror" will last as long as the government tells us. Since the beginning, we've seen the doctrines bleed over into the development of the Homeland Security Department, warrantless wiretaps, rendition of innocents, government monitoring of mail and email, and so on. If we leave the questions for later, we'll end up with an authoritarian police state.
But I suppose we should trust your military judgment. You were in the Army from 1991-1995. I'll bet that gave you a lot of policy experience. What rank did you have when you mustered out? E-3? Maybe E-5? Somehow, I'm not willing to trust your vast military experience to tell me I should let the government shoot first and ask questions later.
Does the quote, "We have always been at war with Eastasia." mean anything to anyone?
If you are going to make a derogatory statement about someone you should at least be man enough to back it up. Or is my grammar so bad you can't figure out what I am saying?