IMHO - The World at large hates the US more and more. So - this road goes not to the temple, but to the Nuclear World War I.

But as long as US does not have the SD to neutralize Russian nuclear forces - the Russia is the only country that can be more or less content with the US. But non-SD treaty is gone…

If there was some brain in the heads of US elite (and people) they should swallow that hard fact - Russia has the key (N.sword) - and the US has to share its unequal position with Russia. Russians being as they are - barbarian, uneducated, swearing on even the sacred (Jews). Let Russia exist as it wishes - stop talking dirty, silence your doggies (Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Baltics), talk to allies (UK, France), allow Germany to NOT talk dirty about Russia. Then the US can have it’s way for another 30 years.

But what we have now - is SD arm’s race. The window of opportunity to get to peace with Russia is closed. Resources are abundant to work on better SD. Angry patriots in technology, science, military are widely present. It is impossible to seal Russia under the iron curtain any more - due to China - which US depends on, and which loves Russia (mutually) after all. It was only due to efforts of pro-Western Ukranian origin politicians that have taken over the USSR after Stalin’s death that Russia/China hostility had existed. Fortunately - first time after Katherine the Great, Russia’s elite is free of Ukranian traitors (don’t get me wrong - my own ancestors are from there :-), but those that affiliated with the West had done the wrong choice. I want to be with Asia.

But when God wants to punish someone - He takes sanity from them.

Fortunately I’m a citizen of Russia…. And having 4000 nuclear missiles to keep US under some control gives me SOME peace of mind. But the SDI which is being actively developed around Russia makes me very upset. Be rest assured - I will support and compain for any political force that invests more into keeping the MAD intact.

And the ONLY reason for Russia’s current economical well-being is this old nuclear sward - crafted by prior generations, under the steel fist rule of Stalin. But he is gone, his victims are gone - and we are now getting some payback from that investment of sweat and blood. Have to work tirelessly though on keeping it from rusting.

Quite a sad World we live in, isn’t it?

To quote Danilo Kis: “The nationalist is by definition an ignoramus.” I seriously doubt that there is anything that you could ever teach me about history. I’m referring to authentic history–not the dumbed-down, whitewashed tripe fed to those who are unfortunate enough to endure the public school system in this country.

The “my God is better than your God” debate is a silly and pointless one that I’m not going to engage in with you. I view all religions as equally silly and irrational. And the proselytizing religions infested with fundamentalists like Christianity and Islam are the worst of them all. Neither has a more noble history than the other. This includes recent history as well as the distant past. What’s more, what happened in the Middle Ages is completely irrelevant to the discussion and is just another hand-waving attempt on your part to distract.

As far as Amerika’s violent foreign policy, there is precious little that is “noble” about it. I mentioned the postwar years in particular. While I’ve studied this period in Amerikan history in painful detail, I’ll let Paul Harris provide a succinct summary:

“The US claims to be a nation of peace lovers, but since the end of the Second World War, it has been at war with: China (1945-46); Korea (1950-53); Guatemala (1954 and again 1967-69); Cuba (1959-60); Belgian Congo (1964); Dominican Republic (1965); Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1959-75); Lebanon (1976 and again 1982-1984); Iran (1980); Grenada (1983); Libya (1986); El Salvador (1980-92); Nicaragua (1981-90); Panamá (1989); Iraq (1991); Somalia (1993); Haiti (1994-1995); Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995); Sudan (1998); Yugoslavia (1999); Afghanistan (2001-02); Iraq (2003-2???). Have I missed any?

“In the same period, the US has attempted to overthrow or displace more than 40 foreign governments; they have conducted unprovoked military assaults on some 20 nations; they have crushed more than 30 populist movements which were fighting against US-sanctioned dictatorial regimes. The US provided indispensable support to a small army of brutal dictatorships: Mobutu in Zaïre, Pinochet in Chile, Duvalier in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua, the Greek junta, Marcos in the Philippines, Rhee in Korea, the Shah in Iran, 40 years of military dictators in Guatemala, Suharto in Indonesia, Hussein in Iraq (remember him?), the Brazilian junta, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and others.

“As well, they dropped powerful bombs on the people of about 25 countries, including 40 consecutive days and nights in Iraq, 78 days and nights in the former Yugoslavia, and a few months in Afghanistan. These latter three countries met the primary requirement for an American bombing target — they were utterly defenseless.

“Not content with conventional warfare, they have also ramped up an increased use of depleted uranium, a truly despicable weapon which produces grossly deformed babies and a long slow death amongst those unfortunate enough not to actually be standing at ground zero. This weaponry, by the way, meets every US criteria for a so-called ‘weapon of mass destruction’; it is clear that while the US might not care for other countries even thinking about WMDs, they are quite willing to take those same weapons out for a test drive themselves. And as an added bonus, they happily drop cluster bombs willy-nilly and refuse to ban landmines.

“There have been assassination attempts on the lives of about 40 foreign political leaders, and there is no secret about the US being behind theses attempts. At the same time, they have interfered in dozens of foreign democratic elections, manipulated trade union movements, manufactured news. There is credible evidence of America supplying handbooks, materials and encouragement for the practice of torture, chemical or biological warfare along with the testing of these weapons, and the use of powerful herbicides causing terrible damage to people and environments in China, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Panamá, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia and elsewhere.

“The CIA has encouraged and aided drug trafficking in various parts of the world when it served their purposes, and supported death squads, particularly in Latin America. And the US has caused terrible harm to the health and well-being of the world’s masses by tightening the screws of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and other international financial institutions, and by imposing unmerciful sanctions and embargoes.

“Gratefully, the Americans are peace lovers or this could be a much longer list.”

As far as your hysteria regarding “IslamoFascists” and your idiotic fears over a “world wide islamic theocracy”, even if we indulge you in your irrational fantasies and pretend that the entire Islamic world is some monolithic block all conspiring against us, all of the Muslim-majority countries in the world together don’t have the GDP of Spain and their military capabilities are laughable. They are simply incapable of presenting any sort of strategic threat to the U.S., not to mention the “wide world” of your fevered imagination. The reality of course is that the U.S. government is in bed with and supports most of the Islamic world’s autocratic governments and the radicalized and violent elements in these societies with an explicit anti-American agenda with a few exceptions are hardly representative of the mainstream throughout the entire Islamic world. As far as those who are willing to take up arms against us, people (nationalists) who are entirely ignorant of human nature are seemingly surprised that people living in other countries don’t want to be militarily occupied and slaughtered en masse by the U.S. government. People are funny that way.

Anyway, given that I’m statically more likely to be killed by a police officer in my own country or even by a bolt of lightening than I am a terrorist, I spend more time worrying about what I’m going to have for lunch. As far as the threat of a “world wide Islamic theocracy”, I spend as much time worrying about that as I do an invasion from little green men from the planet Mars.

I, however, do have a modest proposal that would satisfy both the power hungry psychopaths and the easily frightened masochists yearning to be abused and protected while liberating us risk taking souls. Disney could build a franchise of an archipelago of gulags with fun names such as “Adventures In Security” or “Resorts Without Risk.” The staff could be recruited from the psychopaths and the inmates could be all those who jump at their own shadows. Instead of coarse slogans such as “Arbeit Macht Frei” above the gates, new inmates could be greeted with a Disney character passing out “It’s For The Children” tee shirts. Americans will tolerate any outrage if they’re told that it’s for the children.

Such a harmless celebration of fear and self abasement would be supremely entertaining for the freedom loving elite and immensely profitable for anyone who buys Disney call options.

That’s what happens when a free people carelessly slacken their vigilance. The psychopath politicians, bureaucrats and police, always among us, will not hesitate to increasingly employ these police state powers to abuse us - the very people that they are supposedly protecting. This totalitarian impulse is always present in any government and must be eternally guarded against. As always, threats to liberty from domestic threats are always greater than foreign ones.

That’s why the Founders gave us a Bill Of Rights and a government with powers severely limited by the Constitution. That’s not a suicide pact. That’s what’s required for peace, prosperity and justice. Just as a person wishing to remain alive will not tolerate the tiniest cancer in his body, so should a people wishing to remain free not tolerate the slightest encroachment on their liberty. To do so, now that’s a suicide pact!

As for who the protections of the Constitution should apply to, my answer is everyone residing within the U.S. and everyone within the custody of U.S. government employees.

How do you propose to identify individual enemies of the U.S. without applying due process? If you were the commander running Gitmo and the military brought in a detainee sold to them as a terrorist enemy of America by an Afghan bounty hunter, what would you do? Take their word for it and lock him away in solitary confinement and throw away the key? Or would you question the man and be told that the bounty hunter is a business rival who denounced him because he covets the detainee’s wife and goats. Now what would you do? Release the man or interrogate him more “intensely?” You could increase the pressure until the man breaks down and confesses to all sorts of grisly crimes and intentions just as you, of course, expected him to do under such methods. Would you now pat yourself on the back for having faked reality and expect a promotion for saving America from yet another “sworn and indefatigable enemy of the United States?”

Or perhaps would your attitude be that the man might be entirely innocent but you have no way of knowing either way? So, just to be safe, you waste him and scores more like him with the consolation that American lives are more precious than those of the teeming dark skinned races. Such is the slippery moral slope that awaits those who disdain due process.

With the majority of American people unconcerned about America’s torture chambers - so long as OTHER people’s kids are being tortured there - why should American politicians care? It’s not like political support for torture chambers might cost them their seat or something….

Family values.

Since America is over 80% Christian and you believe that “Judeo Christian Fascism” is such a danger to your liberty, why not move to a country that is niether Jewish nor Christian?

Do you believe that due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments should be extended to sworn and indefatigable enemies of the United States? Do you believe that due process rights should be granted to our enemies( who are not US citizens) in a time of war? Do you believe that the Constitution applies to American Citizens or to all the people on earth? I am just curious as to how far you believe these rights should be extended. Are you aware that the Supreme Court has said that the Constitution is not a “suicide pact” and rights can be limited in a time of war or national emergency? ( See Ex parte Milligan and Korematsu v. the United States)