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Originally posted by kimish
reply to post by Iwinder
Our technology now, if viewed 50 years ago would be considered miraculous.
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edit on 14-8-2011 by kimish because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by kimish
reply to post by Iwinder
Our technology now 50 years ago would be miraculous.
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The combined intelligence of more than one billion people in China cannot match the US or the west in general.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by InfaRedMan
The combined intelligence of more than one billion people in China cannot match the US or the west in general.
Did you know Asians on average score higher than Caucasians in IQ tests....
Originally posted by Iwinder
Originally posted by kimish
reply to post by Iwinder
Our technology now 50 years ago would be miraculous.
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50 years ago I wonder how many people in the States were on food stamps (welfare) ?
Today its 53 million, but by golly you have 3000 bases throughout the world and a killer fleet of jets and Nuclear subs and aircraft carriers.
50 years ago almost everyone had a job and a place to live.
50 years ago was a good time to live and not worry about some asshat country trying to conquer the world piece by piece.
Regards, Iwinder
Originally posted by kimish
reply to post by Iwinder
Basing that as fact off of 5 people is naive and ignorant. But yes, East DO have Higher IQ's. Caucasoids aren't far behind But that is not relevant to the topic of the OP.
Originally posted by Iwinder
50 years ago was a good time to live and not worry about some asshat country trying to conquer the world piece by piece.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Originally posted by Iwinder
50 years ago was a good time to live and not worry about some asshat country trying to conquer the world piece by piece.
Really??
50 years ago was 1961 - the russians were apparently ahead in the space race, thermonuclear war was thought highly likely - kids weer taught to duck under desks to protect themselves from nuclear explosions (a few years later they were still teaching that & I went through the tail end of it!).
the domino theory was in full force
So what was the USSR back then, if not "some asshat country trying to conquer the world piece by piece"??
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Originally posted by wdkirk
reply to post by JennaDarling
I am one American who hopes we do have to close our oversea bases, mothball some of our fleet and bring our troops home. I also believe corporate America should be sanctioned to quit sending US manufacturing abroad. I think we should stop some of our world trade with other countries. I think we should beef up our border staff to keep illegal immigrants out of the US.
I am on board with your statements.
Stop US intervention, support, banking and trading abroad. Bring manufacturing back to the US. Bring our nukes, ships, hardware and troops home.
Develop alternate fuel and stop importing oil. Stop exporting almost everything to other countries.
I like this plan.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by Iwinder
Did what happen then - the USSR conquering the world 1 nation at a time?
It certainly was happening then jsut as much as it is happening now - Cuba had just gone, Vietnam & Cambidia were on the way except you didn't know it yet, nicaragua, leftist revolts in Sth America & Africa were still in the future, the Berlin Wall had just gone up that year, the Arabs were still a few years off getting Soviet support vs Israel. the Korean war was only 8 years "old", the Malayan emergency was over for only 1 year & Suharto's butchery of 500,000+ chinese & communists was still 4 years in the future.
So yeah - it happened then just as much as it is happening now - moreso even - there were more countries involved in wars back then than just the handful now!
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by Iwinder
Well for me that smacks more of the USA's inability to mobilise local sentiment - the USSR was able to support movements in the America's, Africa, the Mid-east, Asia & Europe all at once, including a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan.....although that eventually drove them bankrupt of course....but that was 30 years in the future 50 years ago..... but much of it was on hte bakc of "popular" socialist movements.
Today there have been a few "popular" democratic movmeents in the Mid east & occasionally elsewhere....but the US/Europe seems quite clumsy in supporting them.
the USA struggles with 2 wars & supporting a couple of "client states" in the Mid-east.....and is simiarly looking economically quite vulnerable like the USSR was....and I wonder what it will all lolok like 30 years from now!
I dont' know what you need to be "suspicious" about - I have no trouble at all with understanding that the US being involved in the mid-east at the behest of "strategic interests" (oil, Saudi Arabia, Israel) & i dont' know of anyone who thinks otherwise - even rabid US suporters.
So it's hardly secret!
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