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Yeah, he's nuts for many reasons. Discussing debt without remarking on the scale of the scale is pointless. A person with $200,000 in debt making $1 million a year is different than a person with $200,000 in debt making $50,000 per year.
The Cold War Soviet Union spent anywhere between 25% and 70% of their GDP on military depending on what figures you believe are correct for the Soviet era GDP. The US military spending was 3.7% of the GDP last year which ranks as the 10th lowest since 1940.
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I am particularly amused by how Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviet Union - and all this time I was thinking it was the arms race with the US - silly me
There were many more reasons for the fall of the Soviets than the arms race. The war in Afghanistan was, however, the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union. There is a grain of truth in what he says. The scarey thing is this guy is rich. Richer than any of us and he does know how to handle finance as a weapon. I wouldn't dismiss this strategy out of hand. Whether it is successful or not is another issue. But the first shot across the bow has been fired and maybe our best defense is fiscal responsibility. Arms and military might will never defeat these motherfuckers.
Edit: BTW, don't think bin Laden is stupid. Underestimating your enemy is a tragic error.
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Originally posted by KeyGuy@Nov 2 2004, 10:00 AM You have no idea how rich he is. Nor do I. Again, do not underestimate your enemy.
Nor overestimate. If neither one of us has any idea as you stated why are you calling him rich? You're the one jumping to conclusions. Sorry, but if even if he is worth $1 billion he has nothing compared to the resources of the US government. It's relative.
Again, scale. Tell me how Osama is going to bankrupt the US when the US spends less than 5% of its GDP on its military and is at historically low numbers as a percentage of the total economy? It's a ridiculous assertion. Maybe you can share even one example from history of a nation that went bankrupt with such an insignificant increase relative to the size of its economy.
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Masterminds are another word that comes up all the time.
You keep hearing about these terrorist masterminds that get killed in the middle east.
Terrorist masterminds.
Mastermind is sort of a lofty way to describe what these guys do, don't you think?
They're not masterminds.
"OK, you take bomb, right? And you put in your backpack. And you get on bus and you blow yourself up. Alright?"
"Why do I have to blow myself up? Why can't I just-"
"Who's the fucking mastermind here? Me or you?"
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Originally posted by KeyGuy@Nov 2 2004, 10:16 AM Also, does that 5 per cent include all the outside contractors employed by the military which are huge. Stats can say whatever you like.
Odds mean nothing but you still want to discuss the numbers? OK, the US isn't even CLOSE to spending the most money on its military when scaled to the size of its economy. Hell, the US debt isn't even close to being the highest relative to GDP. Its about half of Italy's and near the average for the G7.
The numbers just sound like so much because the US economy is huge compared to any other nation.
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The defeat in Afghanistan probably played a bigger role in the collapse of the Soviet system than most Americans give it credit for, particularly after 20 years of Reagan-as-god propaganda.
And yes, America won the war Afghanistan - the same way we won the two world wars in Europe. We put up dollars and let somebody else do most of the dying. Unfortunately, we walked away after we won. When we walked away from Europe after the first world war, we got the second*; we stuck around after the second, and things have settled down.
The idea that "the infidels" can be driven to give up is central to the philosophy of the bid Laden style Islamic fundamentalists; they point to Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Reagan's tucking his tail between his legs in Beruit as examples.
* - Weak arguement, I know, based both on the final peace treaty and the nature of the Republican governments that followed Wilson - still, the arguement has been made with some merits.
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In a war such as the current conflict against terrorism, % of GNP spent on the war is largely irrelevant. All one has to do is look at 20th century history in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia to prove it.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that KeyGuy was attempting to be ironic in pointing out that we aren't fighting in Iraq the way we've been victorious in the past.
I had to reach to get there, though.
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