bucs90
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- Feb 25, 2010
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Lets get right to this. Is the USA the World Police, or f**king not. Syria did not attack us. It is a criminal act by that regime on its own people. Or, a civil war as some call it.
We are acting, literally, like a huge police department who hears about a rash of gang violence in a community across the county, and sends the SWAT team in to clean house.
Is that our global role, responsibility or right? Or not?
I hear people on the left and right bitching about the American "militarization" of our domestic police forces. Using military weapons and equipment (which, so happen to be the most effective and cost efficient equipment to....well, you know, protect against violence from guns and knives). And we hear them bitch and whine about that type of presence and force being used here at home to fight crime.
YET....both sides are pushing for that exact military style force to be used on other people, 5,000 miles away, for a criminal act on it's own people.
Is the military a policing body or not? Are the police to reflect the military, or not? You cant have it both ways.
The origin of police is England. Military wore red. Police wore blue. They did it on purpose, to differentiate the two clearly. Military was for war ONLY, to defend England from foreign enemy attacks. The police defended English residents from violence within her borders.
We should remember that. The US military is ONLY for war. For attacks against us by our enemies, and NOTHING else. The police are for violence against our citizens within our borders.
We're blurring the two far too often. We aren't the Demascus Police Department, or the Tehran Sheriffs Department.
Enough of this shit already. Everyone says we must strike to "not look weak" or to "look strong". How about look mature, and not HAVE to bomb someone every time someone thinks we need to be Global Cops again.
We are acting, literally, like a huge police department who hears about a rash of gang violence in a community across the county, and sends the SWAT team in to clean house.
Is that our global role, responsibility or right? Or not?
I hear people on the left and right bitching about the American "militarization" of our domestic police forces. Using military weapons and equipment (which, so happen to be the most effective and cost efficient equipment to....well, you know, protect against violence from guns and knives). And we hear them bitch and whine about that type of presence and force being used here at home to fight crime.
YET....both sides are pushing for that exact military style force to be used on other people, 5,000 miles away, for a criminal act on it's own people.
Is the military a policing body or not? Are the police to reflect the military, or not? You cant have it both ways.
The origin of police is England. Military wore red. Police wore blue. They did it on purpose, to differentiate the two clearly. Military was for war ONLY, to defend England from foreign enemy attacks. The police defended English residents from violence within her borders.
We should remember that. The US military is ONLY for war. For attacks against us by our enemies, and NOTHING else. The police are for violence against our citizens within our borders.
We're blurring the two far too often. We aren't the Demascus Police Department, or the Tehran Sheriffs Department.
Enough of this shit already. Everyone says we must strike to "not look weak" or to "look strong". How about look mature, and not HAVE to bomb someone every time someone thinks we need to be Global Cops again.
