Was it 911, or November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and left the U.S. at sea, drifting without an enemy in a strange new world, that changed everything?.
Through four decades of the Cold War, Americans had been able to feel reasonably united in their determination to fight evil. And everyone, even children, knew the name of the evildoers: "the commies." Within two years after the Wall fell, the Soviet Union had simply disappeared. In the U.S., nobody really knew how to fight evil now, or even who the evildoers were. The world's sole remaining superpower was "running out of demons," as Colin Powell complained.
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2006-09-15 08:26:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What a surprisingly intelligent question. Finally a question well worth answering.
The U.S. was indeed in a pinch when communism collapsed into it's own footprint much like the twin towers. We had a formidable arms race and the military-industrial complex was brimming with profits; and then it happened. The unthinkable, the unimaginable, the unwanted: PEACE. Panic struck execs from Rockwell, Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed-Martin, McDonald Douglas and Halliburton were resigning in droves and looking to Washington for a refreshing, replenishing war. The first gulf war in '91 brought some much needed relief, but the joy lasted only a very short time. The dark ages of peace brought on us by the Clinton administration dampened the mood of the trigger-happy and megalomaniac.
Mustering their last breath and monies they managed to install the Bush junta and were virtually guaranteed the blood they needed so desperately. Ever since 2001 the military-industrial complex rejoices in the blood of American sons and daughters dying for the good cause of profits, executive payrolls, deferred retirement packages and all the amenities the soldier never dreamed of.
Our country needs war. We cannot afford to have peace. Peace is something that is bad for business. Imagine that people and nations would suddenly get along and not use the wholesome weapons-technology we love to produce and sell.
2006-09-15 09:13:32 · answer #1 · answered by The answer man 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The end of the cold war is the cause of the current fight but not in the way you think. It's not that the US didn't have any enemy so they invented new ones. Instead it's that with the Soviet threat removed the crazy piss ant places of the world no longer need the US. Remember the Mujahedeen actually worked with the US against the Soviets. Those insane Muslims have always hated the US but hated the Soviets more. Why?
Well they hate the US because of the freedoms the US people enjoy leads to laziness, weakness and a multitude of paths that lead away from Allah. But those freedoms made the US less of a threat to them. They could work freely within the US and not be bothered.
They hated the Soviet because religion of any type is outlawed there. And the Soviets are much more "efficient" at quelling anything that disagreed with the communist line.
So maybe the pyschoatic Muslims sided with the US to help bring down the Soviets then turned their attention on the (in their minds) weaker US. Now the Soviets are gone and they can bring down their 2nd biggest enemy and started that campaign with small steps of Kobar towers, the US embassies, the USS Cole, the world trade center bombings and then really got the US attention when they flew those planes into the World Trade Center.
Really if you look at it without emotion it's quite an intelligent way to go about bringing down 2 larger, more powerful adversaries.
2006-09-15 09:04:56 · answer #2 · answered by generic_nickname 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think of the imaginary section is how "he" is supposedly all-powerful, omniscient, etc. he's a paradox. Christians will argue that loose will exists, yet with an all-powerful god that seems completely impossible. and then enters devil, you recognize that one ingredient that's supposedly an evil enemy of god... yet this enemy is totally ineffective if omnipotence exists. God might understand all his judgements formerly he makes them and it would be a huge waste of time and capability to even worry scuffling with against an all-powerful deity. As for omnipresent, some Christians will declare that god is exterior of area and time, which they of course don't understand actually ability that god isn't something. you won't be in a position to exist exterior of area and time. meanwhile he's likewise supposedly everywhere, yet you won't be in a position to be everywhere and nowhere on the comparable time. God is a paradox.
2016-10-15 01:00:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. But the government cannot claim unlimited power and cannot justify ignoring its own laws without an imaginary enemy.
2006-09-15 08:32:43 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So people who fly planes into buildings are 'imaginary'? Or is it that you just don't think of them as enemies? Perhaps because Muslim terrorists are doing things you agree with.
2006-09-15 08:40:19 · answer #5 · answered by Will 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
very good question , i think that us have no imaginary enemy because she is the worst enemy of all the world.
2006-09-15 08:37:02 · answer #6 · answered by wewantjustice 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That is very correct.
Wall comes down and Momar Kadofi is targeted....
2006-09-15 08:30:14 · answer #7 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO
Remember the famous Brezhnev saying "You Americans have your Ni**ers we have our Jews."
Go big Red Go
2006-09-15 08:44:47 · answer #8 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Draw the blinds, pretend they aren't there, and see what happens.
The enemy is real and they want us dead.
2006-09-15 08:43:28 · answer #9 · answered by obviously_you'renotagolfer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thank you for your support. May you live in peace until I have nukes!!
Dell Computers akbar!!!
2006-09-15 08:31:03 · answer #10 · answered by El Pistolero Negra 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋