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- onyxcoltrane, on 06/29/2008, -0/+11FTA: The United States is well positioned to take the lead among nations in renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and dismantling the means of conducting war. We account for roughly half of world military expenditures and our military expenditures account for more than half of the U.S. federal discretionary budget to the neglect of major education, health, infrastructure, and environmental needs.
Yet the only military threat to our domestic security is from a handful of terrorists armed with box cutters and a willingness to die for their cause. We face a greater danger from our own children brandishing guns in our schools than from any opposing army. If a band of terrorists were to attack us with an atomic weapon, it would likely be delivered in a suitcase or packing crate. Such threats share in common the simple fact that even the mightiest military force in the world offers no protection. The solutions depend more on strengthening our families and communities, than on increasing military budgets.
Military science has long recognized that the use of conventional military force against an unconventional enemy that blends in with the civilian population is futile, even counterproductive, because the inevitable collateral damage fuels resentment and increases the numbers and commitment of the enemy. In the case of the United States, it drains our resources, divides us as a nation, weakens our moral standing in the world, and creates more unconventional enemies -- as our fruitless occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan currently demonstrates.
The greatest threats to U.S. security come from weather chaos, oil dependence, disruption of food supplies, water scarcity, domestic gun violence, profligate borrowing, and a collapsing dollar -- threats increased by our current military security policies. - marabout40, on 06/29/2008, -0/+10Last week Monday, renowned climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen at the NASA GISS climate science center, told members of congress that, contrary to what he said in 2006: "I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most, we actually now have just "ONE YEAR."
Dr. Hansen further told congress last Monday:
"Again a wide gap has developed between what is understood about global warming by the relevant scientific community and what is known by policymakers and the public. Now, as then, frank assessment of scientific data yields conclusions that are shocking to the body politic. Now, as then, I can assert that these conclusions have a certainty exceeding 99 percent.
The difference is that now we have used up all slack in the schedule for actions needed to defuse the global warming time bomb. The next President and Congress must define a course next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for the present dangerous situation. Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide ... to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s control."
Here's the powerpoint slideshow he presented: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TippingPointsNe ...
and a pdf of his presentation here: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLate ...
John McCain doesn't have a firm grasp of the issues and what it will take solve the problem. That's evident from him going around talking about "drill, drill, drill!" More fossil fuels is not the solution to our energy crisis and it sure ain't our solution to climate change. - kyledeb, on 06/29/2008, -0/+9I can think of no politician that has ever justified the ridiculous amount the U.S. spends on the military.
- MsLaurel, on 06/29/2008, -0/+8Amen. Truly an eye-opener. Now if we can only get past the propaganda, bring our troops home, and figure out how to make the Pentagon turn a profit in peacetime, doing peaceable things.
