<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">billk wrote:  <span style="font-size:19.2px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Why the snide remark about the Repubs?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:19.2px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:19.2px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Because they are in now. Because of Bush Jr.  Because of Nixon.  Yeah, there was Clinton.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:19.2px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:19.2px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Re foreign victims. Of course they do not count at all, as shown by our name for them:  collateral damage.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:19.2px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:19.2px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div>On Jun 23, 2017, at 2:16 PM, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On 23 June 2017 at 21:11, William Flynn Wallace  wrote:</span><br><span><snip></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Re wars:  has there been a defensible one since WWII?  No.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>What will the Repubs get us into now so that their military industrial</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>complex buddies can make more billions?</span></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Why the snide remark about the Repubs?</span><br><span>The Dems did the same.</span><br><span>The military industrial complex don't care what political religion is in power.</span><br><span>Makes little difference to them enriching themselves.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Right. If the MIC were a partisan concern, then we'd likely have seen far fewer wars and then only when one party is in power. Instead, we see even so called peace candidates and Nobel Peace Prize winners supporting ever more military intervention.</div><span class=""><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>After all, it all helps the USA GDP statistics.</span><br><span>Produce war material, then blow it up abroad somewhere, then produce more.</span><br><span>The equivalent of digging holes, then filling them in again.</span><br><span>Great for business.  :(</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span>It's good for certain business, yes, though bad for the economy as a whole. A net loss along the lines of the broken window fallacy -- not to mention all those innocent foreigners killed in the process.<span class=""><br><br><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">  Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div style="line-height:normal"><br></div></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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