(December 21, 2013 at 1:41 am)là bạn điên Wrote: Frankly this was about the USA (and the UK) wanting to be the world's policeman instead of just looking after its own interests.I really would love for the US to announce that it was starting a plan to recall all troops from abroad, cut military spending drastically, and have a force primarily for defense of the homeland and a striking force that could be deployed if needed. The amount we'd save would probably be in the low hundreds-of-billions a year, and just think about the look on the faces of all of those governments who complained about US interventionism and imperialism and HOLY SHIT YOU MEAN WE HAVE TO PROVIDE OUR OWN DEFENSE NOW?!?!?!?
I don't think you can be the world's cop. I think you can only be the world's bully. Let everyone else hash out their differences. We'll be right here, nice and cozy, and ready to spend ridiculous amounts of dollars on your goods, if you can stop killing each other long enough to make them.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
