We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
– Mahatma Ghandi



US Slams Iraqi Amnesty Plan:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050411/pl_afp/usiraqamnesty

Military Spending Bill Is Ripe for the Stuffing:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42419-2005Apr10?language=printer

Sharon Warns of 'Civil War' in Israel:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=628584

There is no such thing as absolute security. Thanks to modern ICBM technologies, America can be totally destroyed by a surprise nuclear strike even today, and like any country, it can also be hit by a terrorist act. The only thing America does differently is that it spends thousands of times more cash to delude its citizens that total security exists. There is no such thing.

History has proven that no one system can be applicable in the entire world. Democracy should be split into Western, Eastern and whatever other style that's necessary. In the 21st century, democracy has so far been only a justification for war.

* = Initial comment
= Grandpa h.



There is no such thing as absolute security.*

Just like there is NO absolute freedom.

Thanks to modern ICBM technologies, America can be totally destroyed*
by a surprise nuclear strike even today, and like any*
country, it can also be hit by a terrorist act.*
The only thing America does differently is that it spends*
thousands of times more cash to delude its citizens that*
total security exists.*
There is no such thing.*

And, ironically, today the United States government has
become the sole "rogue elephant" of international law and politics.
And yet Americans typically don't see the terrorist threat as a threat of retaliation. That's a constant in the history of warfare.
No one ever provokes anyone, the other side is just simply evil and our side is wholesome goodness.

History has proven that no one system can be applicable*
in the entire world.*

Even India split into Pakistan, which in turn split into Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Peopel have different ways of doing things.
The US has its own way of trying to expand and influence everybody.

Grandpa h.