Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Diomed wrote:

Kreutz wrote:Methinks that started domestically with the battle of Ft Sumter and internationally with the entry of the AEF into WW1.

The AEF? More like Cuba, or maybe Mexico. Though at least those adventures got us land, WWI just got us a bill.

Truth.


If we're gonna be Imperialist scum, may as well get some real estate out of it. Modern America is the only bizzarro Empire that invades countries and sinks resources into them, instead of taking resources out.

Somehow I can't see Scipio Africanus storming Carthage then burying them in Roman grain and technical assistance.....

Kreutz wrote:If we're gonna be Imperialist scum, may as well get some real estate out of it. Modern America is the only bizzarro Empire that invades countries and sinks resources into them, instead of taking resources out.

Amen. If we're going to spend like we're an empire, let's have a proper empire for our money. What we've got now is the worst of both worlds - all of the expense, none of the benefit and respect (by which I mean fear edging into terror).