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Originally Posted by rcecale
I'm surprised that no one has addressed the white elephant that RPKESQ has led into the room with his comment.
"Top causes of death in America:
(1) Diseases of the heart heart attack (mainly) 28.5%
(2) Malignant neoplasms cancer 22.8%
(3) Cerebrovascular disease stroke 6.7%
(4) Chronic lower respiratory disease emphysema, chronic bronchitis 5.1%
(5) Unintentional injuries accidents 4.4%
(6) Diabetes mellitus diabetes 3.0%
(7) Influenza and pneumonia flu & pneumonia 2.7%
(8) Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's senility 2.4%
(9) Nephritis and Nephrosis kidney disease 1.7%
(10) Septicemia systemic infection 1.4%
(11) Intentional self-harm suicide 1.3%
(12) Chronic Liver/Cirrhosis liver disease 1.1%
(13) Essential Hypertension "
For years, the US Government has been spending billions of dollars on research and prevention of all thirteen of the items listed here. To date, ALL of these major causes of death in America are still thriving. These are all wars we continue to lose.
Perhaps what is needed, in true liberal fashion, is for the US to surrender, cut and run and stop spending money on such fruitless endeavors. We've wasted too many billions, nay, make that TRILLIONS of dollars fighting these wars!
Randy
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Wow. This is a superb example of sloppy thinking.
We have improved the cure rate, survival rate and prevention of all of these causes of death. Not to mention auto deaths, aviation deaths, bathroom accidental deaths, etc.
So you see all of the money and efforts have made enormous improvements.
And yet, you think I’ve pointed out a “white elephant”? What a brainiac!
Here I am an American combat veteran, an American taxpayer, working for an American company in France, where I live. Some of you patriotic idiots apparently think that because I note where I live, I am some foreign French person. Please, let’s not broadcast your bigotry and John Birch type of mindless patriotism to the whole world.
Contrary to what you think, Europe has had long experience in Terrorism and have successfully fought and won against it several times in the last century. France is not your enemy, please look up how France responded to 9/11 and Afghanistan. That doesn’t mean they swallow all the same BS that you do. Nor does that mean they hate you. It does mean they have their own opinion based on experience in the Middle East that consists of several more centuries’ worth than America has.
As far as the riots in France go. Anyone who thinks they are religious based is wrong. It is racially based. America has had its own “do not travel zones” in many of its major cities (some as recently as the 1992 in Los Angeles where I was shot during the riots), all of South Central was a no-go zone for the Police and Fire Depts. So try not to paint the troubles in France as a failure that America has not suffered several times over.
Terrorism is a very low risk to the vast majority of people in Europe and America. Osama has won most of the battles strategically since 9/11. Just like the Viet Cong / NVA won the political battles during the Viet Nam war (no matter how many you killed and where!). When America lashes out in the manner like Iraq, it loses. Any student of world history can provide numerous examples to illustrate this point. The two ways to defeat terrorism have been known for several millenniums. America has chosen a non-workable method both in Viet Nam and in Iraq.
This was pointed out before the Iraq war and has been pointed out several times since the start of the war by both civilian and military experts, all to no avail. Trying to end the war as soon as possible and to start attacking terrorism in a more proactive way, would create far more security than the present course. And having the balls to say this and try to change the course of this war is the height of true patriotism.