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America has a massive military for one reason, to protect it's economic interests, which in short are resources. I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds the fact that America has 5% of the worlds population yet it uses 40% of the worlds resources, obscene.
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But you DO get better overall education at Catholic schools. Just look at me.
I can explain why it's less to go to Catholic/private schools though. First, it doesn't have to accomodate EVERYBODY; my school (situated on a hill) is rather handicapped unfriendly (not that we lack one of those extra-large stalls). Second, it doesn't have to admit really really bad students, and you can get kicked out for fighting, no matter who started it.
Er, back to the subject. I know Omega's military-happy and all, but the U.S. alone can destroy the world 16 times over. Isn't that just a teeny bit OVERKILL?
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"Not at all. If you're enemies have been completely eliminated, they're not going to attack you again."
True, but Gul Dukat once said that victory does not lie in destroying one's enemies, but in convincing your enemies that they were wrong to oppose you in the first place.
And as for overthrowing the US government, wasn't that what DT was up to?
Ziyal:
"Second, it doesn't have to admit really really bad students, and you can get kicked out for fighting, no matter who started it."
I hope you're not saying those are BAD things. Keeping students that disrupt order does no one any good.
"...the U.S. alone can destroy the world 16 times over. Isn't that just a teeny bit OVERKILL?"
Yeah, just a little. I'd probably want to cut that by about 75%. Four times over is good enough. As long as it's spread out, so as to prevent China from destroying the entire arsenal in one stroke.
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Tora: "Second, it doesn't have to admit really really bad students, and you can get kicked out for fighting, no matter who started it."
Omega: "I hope you're not saying those are BAD things. Keeping students that disrupt order does no one any good."
Obviously. They have no hope of getting a decent education. They're just criminals. There's no point helping them when we can just wash our hands of them.
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Yes, I do have a list of what percentage of the GDP those numbers are.
I will be posting two lists shortly. That, and rankings.
I'm just here to inform, not comment (although will someone else please tackle this idea that Rush and the Repubiclicans have that China is this great power? they couldn't take Taiwan, let alone the US)
(also, will someone please educate the young republican camp as to how idiotic the concept of mutual assured deterence is and how the Cuban Missile Conflict REALLY began, not what we're taught in school and on the news)
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DT - Education as you well know is taught in such a way as to support the national interest. Not hinder it. This is especially true of the American system, which is excellent in matters of science and maths, but dodgy as hell when it comes to history and politics.
The Cuban Missile crisis, that's a very complicated issue. You can hardly encompass it in one post. If you are referring to the actual missiles then the issue is totally hypocritical on the US end. America had missiles all along the Russia border in Turkey, all the Russians were doing was evening the score by putting missiles on the US border. Big whoop!
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