Apparently Rashard Mendenhall Really Is an Idiot

RoyTheHammer;3942442 said:
We're a nation of hypocrites..

Yes we are. And you know what? We've earned the right to be. We've been policing this planet and kept the world turning for the past 70 years. We have the bigger guns, we have the better country, we make the rules and we decide when we get to break said rules. If someone else does like it, then let them try and do something about it. It didnt work out for Japan, it didnt work out for the Soviets, it didnt work out for Al-Qaeda and it won't work out for the next group of misguided malcontents that tries to **** with us. We're a proud nation that will spare no expense putting others back in their place.

We're top dog, and top dog does what he wants, when he wants and how he wants.
 
RoyTheHammer;3942461 said:
Extremists are out of their minds.. they can't be reasoned with and won't be detered by one man's death and someone even more crazy will come along to take his place.

All the more reason to shoot every last one them. Besides, they only live to die and go see their 72 virgins. We're just helping them out.
 
The30YardSlant;3942486 said:
All the more reason to shoot every last one them. Besides, they only live to die and go see their 72 virgins. We're just helping them out.

You don't seem to realize.. you can't shoot every last one of them. More are born and raised (aka brainwashed) to be that way everyday. Its a losing battle if we think we can just kill them all and expect to be rid of it. We don't have the resources to keep doing it.
 
The30YardSlant;3942485 said:
Yes we are. And you know what? We've earned the right to be. We've been policing this planet and kept the world turning for the past 70 years. We have the bigger guns, we have the better country, we make the rules and we decide when we get to break said rules. If someone else does like it, then let them try and do something about it. It didnt work out for Japan, it didnt work out for the Soviets, it didnt work out for Al-Qaeda and it won't work out for the next group of misguided malcontents that tries to **** with us. We're a proud nation that will spare no expense putting others back in their place.

We're top dog, and top dog does what he wants, when he wants and how he wants.

..and its people like you that make the world hate us. A little class perhaps?

Oh, and while we've been trying to play "world police", and neglecting our many major issues at home, our economy has gone down the ****ter and our debt is reaching insane levels. We arn't the only superpower anymore. If we continue the route we are going, its only going to get worse. You think prices for gas and healthcare and insurance, etc.. are ridiculous now? Just wait.

We need to stop trying to play world police and overextend ourselves more and more and focus on our issues at home first. We have the money to finance Saddam Hussein and give 25 million in aid to terrorists in Libya and other nations who hate our guts, etc etc.. how about using that money to help our youth get a decent education, or fix up our infrastructure, or lower taxes, or reduce healthcare prices, etc..?

We elect all these damn politicians and pay them ridiculous salaries.. and yet far too often instead of doing their jobs and promoting diplomacy among all nations, they take the lazy and greedy option of just sending more of other families children overseas to die in the name of "democracy" and "right".
 
The30YardSlant;3942528 said:
We can sure as hell try though

You realize why that's not practical right? How much innocent blood did we spill just trying to get Osama this long? Now you want to try and hunt down ALL terrorists? Even though they multiply every day? I don't know if you're joking or not, but do some reseach on how much money and how many resources it took just to get this far and finally track down Bin Laden.. its quite a wake up call.
 
RoyTheHammer;3942524 said:
..and its people like you that make the world hate us. A little class perhaps?

Oh, and while we've been trying to play "world police", and neglecting our many major issues at home, our economy has gone down the ****ter and our debt is reaching insane levels. We arn't the only superpower anymore. If we continue the route we are going, its only going to get worse. You think prices for gas and healthcare and insurance, etc.. are ridiculous now? Just wait.

We need to stop trying to play world police and overextend ourselves more and more and focus on our issues at home first. We have the money to finance Saddam Hussein and give 25 million in aid to terrorists in Libya and other nations who hate our guts, etc etc.. how about using that money to help our youth get a decent education, or fix up our infrastructure, or lower taxes, or reduce healthcare prices, etc..?

We elect all these damn politicians and pay them ridiculous salaries.. and yet far too often instead of doing their jobs and promoting diplomacy among the world, they take the lazy and greedy option of just sending more of other families children overseas to die in the name of "democracy" and "right".

Truth be told, I don't give a you know what about what other countries think because deep down they all know that the world is still turning because of us. We are the most generous and most active nation on earth. Nobody else has the spine to stand up to the evils in this world anymore. Europe is full of politically correct pansies who are content with letting Islamic extremists take over that continent. Russia is too busy trying to figure out the free market system to notice anything else. Asia is desperately trying to blow itself up. One out of every three people in Africa has AIDS and the majority have never seen a cell phone. What is this world without us? Nothing. We play world police because there is nobody else to do it, so we take on everyone else's burden in order to keep some semblence of sanity in a world seemingly hell bent on destroying itself.

The rest of the world curses us, and yet know they need us. Those that want us gone are only interested in watching the world burn.
 
RoyTheHammer;3942531 said:
You realize why that's not practical right? How much innocent blood did we spill just trying to get Osama this long? Now you want to try and hunt down ALL terrorists? Even though they multiply every day? I don't know if you're joking or not, but do some reseach on how much money and how many resources it took just to get this far and finally track down Bin Laden.. its quite a wake up call.

I want those who would oppose our way of life and wish to bring terror to the innocent always know they are potentially seconds away from an American soldier with an M16 and a grudge kicking in their door. I want them to live with that fear. Killing them all is not practical, but reminding them that you can't run from us forever is.

As for the money argument, like I said earlier, money well spent. They must never forget that we will pay any price to deliver justice. Our allies in Europe used to have this same mindset, and then they forget what they once stood for, got lost in being "nice", "logical" and "politically correct"...and look at them now. They couldnt stop a nine year old from setting off a bomb in a town square.

So many people take for granted our way of life and forget that it can all vanish in the blink of an eye.
 
The30YardSlant;3942533 said:
Europe is full of politically correct pansies who are content to let Islamic Extremists take over their continent. Russia is too busy trying to figure out the free market system to notice anything else. Asia is desperately trying to blow itself up. One out of every three people in Africa has AIDS and the majority have never seen a cell phone.

Some of the most ridiculous things i've ever read.. thank you.


The rest of the world curses us, and yet know they need us. Those that want us gone are only interested in watching the world burn.

I don't think the world curses us, we have many allies and many who stick up for us and fight with us. The only real people that i can see legitimately want us gone are Islamic extremists like Al Queda. They are a small group when you look at the big picture. However, we live in the lap of luxury compared to almost anywhere else in the world, and im sure we are perceived as selfish, hypocritical, whiners to alot of countries based on the exposure and news reports that they hear and read. Our society in this country is going down the drain, and respect and class and integrity are things that i wouldn't associate with this country and the majority of our society. This is why i understand why the world can percieve us the way they do, while still being thankful for the help they receive. Its kind of a two headed monster.. while we can be a very generous nation, we are most definately hypocritical and give off that "holier than thou" attitude far too often.
 
The30YardSlant;3942535 said:
I want those who would oppose our way of life and wish to bring terror to the innocent always know they are potentially seconds away from an American soldier with an M16 and a grudge kicking in their door. I want them to live with that fear. Killing them all is not practical, but reminding them that you can't run from us forever is.

As for the money argument, like I said earlier, money well spent. They must never forget that we will pay any price to deliver justice. Our allies in Europe used to have this same mindset, and then they forget what they once stood for, got lost in being "nice", "logical" and "politically correct"...and look at them now. They couldnt stop a nine year old from setting off a bomb in a town square.

So many people take for granted our way of life and forget that it can all vanish in the blink of an eye.

You don't seem to grasp this concept.. but our way of life is vanishing as we speak man. Look at how devalued the dollar has become in the global economy. Look at how ridiculously high prices have become for everything. You talk about how we will pay any price to bring terror to a stop.. well when its never going to completely stop and we are hurting ourselves at home by continuing to try and hunt down this never ending horde of extremists.. that is too high a price my friend.

We don't need to continually wage a war on this small group of extremists. The only time i advocate war with the extremists in when they directly attack us, especially our on our soil. In that case, yes.. bring all those responsible to justice. Every now and then we need to send a message to these people that if you screw with us or our people.. you will get hurt. There's no reason however that we should have gone into Iraq. There's no reason to spend money to go into Libya, etc.. its money and resources that could be much better spent.

The only thing i would do now, is find out what exactly Pakistan knew about Bin Laden and if we find out that they new all along where he was, and they hid it from the world and let us and other nations go on spilling the blood of more innocent people to find him.. they should be made to pay as well. Other than that.. we need to put a stop to this "war on terror". We sent a message. Enough. Now its time to focus on rebuilding at home and fix the many domestic problems that plague us on our own soil.
 
RoyTheHammer;3942536 said:
Some of the most ridiculous things i've ever read.. thank you.

I don't know why. The world is dark, sad, scary place.


I don't think the world curses us, we have many allies and many who stick up for us and fight with us. The only real people that i can see legitimately want us gone are Islamic extremists like Al Queda. They are a small group when you look at the big picture. However, we live in the lap of luxury compared to almost anywhere else in the world, and im sure we are perceived as selfish, hypocritical, whiners to alot of countries based on the exposure and news reports that they hear and read. Our society in this country is going down the drain, and respect and class and integrity are things that i wouldn't associate with this country and the majority of our society. This is why i understand why the world can percieve us the way they do, while still being thankful for the help they receive. Its kind of a two headed monster.. while we can be a very generous nation, we are most definately hypocritical and give off that "holier than thou" attitude far too often.

We act like we do because we, as a society, have earned it. We've earned our freedom, we've fought and bled many times over for the right to call ourselves America, home of the free. We have opportunities most don't have because brave men gave their lives in defense of a society that, while imperfect, is by by the most functional on earth today. Most countries are unwilling to pay the price we have for our way of life. They sacrifice their rights in the name of fear, they sacrifice their values in the name of being progressive, or they just hate each other so much that they cannot come together on a united front. Sure, we argue and bicker amongst ourselves, but at the end of the day we are all Americans and will help each other when the other guys threaten us.
 
The30YardSlant;3942541 said:
I don't know why. The world is dark, sad, scary place.




We act like we do because we, as a society, have earned it. We've earned our freedom, we've fought and bled many times over for the right to call ourselves America, home of the free. We have opportunities most don't have because brave men gave their lives in defense of a society that, while imperfect, is by by the most functional on earth today. Most countries are unwilling to pay the price we have for our way of life. They sacrifice their rights in the name of fear, they sacrifice their values in the name of being progressive, or they just hate each other so much that they cannot come together on a united front. Sure, we argue and bicker amongst ourselves, but at the end of the day we are all Americans and will help each other when the other guys threaten us.

I don't believe our society is more functional then some of our allies in Britian and France, etc.. and i believe its this thinking that because we have earned our freedom, it gives us some kind of right to be senseless and not think about how we should act towards others and how we would want them to treat us. Yes, we are America.. and we are the most powerful nation in the world, but there's no need to shove that fact down people's throats. Trust me.. its not necessary. People know. :)
 
keds;3942272 said:
How is the act of questioning someone "arrogant" or "fascist"???... I would think that not questioning and accepting someone's word as fact without examining evidence is "arrogant" and "fascist"...

You're missing the point.

Mendenhall is questioning a person who would dare celebrate the death of Bin Laden.

His 'truther' thoughts are nonsense to me, but he's free to think that. I think less of 'Truthers' from an intelligence standpoint, but it's not like I haven't had some hair brained ideas in my life.

But, to question somebody like they are not even a human being because they celebrated the death of Bin Laden (who was a fringe human being at best).....arrogant and fascist.

People keep sticking up for Mendenhall because he questions the towers going down, but keep missing the point that he's condemning those who chose to celebrate. I have yet to see somebody who celebrated the death question somebody who chose not to celebrate.




YR
 
There's sections of this world that will always hate us, regardless of what we do. I'd prefer that we had more of a national defense instead of a national offense. I wish we were more like Switzerland. But the reality is that we simply cannot be Switzerland, there's too many people outside our nation that would not allow for it. People with 30YardSlant's attitude have no bearing on why foreign countries and people hate us. It's far, far deeper than that.

I actually understand it on some level. I wouldn't want another country policing us or sticking their nose in our business either. But, the rest of the world has failed to show that it can operate in a civil manner and they don't have an issue with taking our money or food. There's really not much we can do with regards to this.

As far as terrorists go, I'd prefer we go after every one of them. Would you let a murderer go and say 'well, we don't have the resources to get every murderer.' I hope not.

I think we need to treat the Timothy McVeighs of the world like we treat the Bin Ladens of the world. And since countries like Pakistan seemingly don't care to help us, they've forced our hand into handling the situation ourselves. Now, a country like Britain...I have more faith that they can handle terrorists themselves.







YR
 
Biggems;3939735 said:
I guess the idiot believes the whole video of the planes taking out the WTC was nothing more than Hollywood special effects.
are the people that question the JFK assassination any different? That's on video too.
 
jimmy40;3942770 said:
are the people that question the JFK assassination any different? That's on video too.

Actually it's on film... and there is a difference...

Not taking a side... just sayin'...
 
RoyTheHammer;3942519 said:
You don't seem to realize.. you can't shoot every last one of them. More are born and raised (aka brainwashed) to be that way everyday. Its a losing battle if we think we can just kill them all and expect to be rid of it. We don't have the resources to keep doing it.

So what is your alternative?

Allow them to continue to grow in numbers?? And hope they don't come back??

I don't like that plan very much.

Listen, I like analogies.

I use the analogy that if there are nests of rattlesnakes in the woods beyond the creek behind my house, ... I can try and kill every snake, and squash every egg, or I can decide that it is "a losing battle if I think I can just kill them all and expect to be rid of it."

Remember, my grandchildren will be playing in my backyard.

So I can fight the difficult battle of trying to kill the snakes, or ignore them and wait for the day one will come and bite my grandchild, .. or fly a plane into a skyscraper, or two.

I can't see how "not trying to kill them all" is even an option.

Plus if they do get here in large numbers, .. all of the resources that we saved by not going after them will be meaningless.
 
trickblue;3942819 said:
Actually it's on film... and there is a difference...

Not taking a side... just sayin'...
I started to change it, but didn't think it was worth the effort. being lazy today
 
jimmy40;3942770 said:
are the people that question the JFK assassination any different? That's on video too.

You can't see who shot Kennedy. You can see commercial airliners flying into the World Trade Center. Not to mention that there is very limited footage of the JFK shooting, every major and minor news network in the western world was showing footage of the twin towers that day.
 

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