That is not true, Australia faces terrorism all the time. You just don't hear about it because you read/see US centric news. The bombings in Bali targeting Australians comes to mind. Terrorists do tend to focus on the US (and Israel) more... but this is do to the US being exponentially more powerful than any other country in the world. I don't think the United States has a perfect foreign policy record, but Al-Qaeda wants the Western World destroyed because of who we are and what we believe. Once they showed they are willing and able to attack us in the US we don't have a choice but to fight them. 5yr
yes USA represents the western world like a magnet and it is US who must stand up to the fight with Al-Qaeda and everyone else who attacks. USA is the light that attracts, always has been, and it must be strong. The borders are not strong enough because the people are too generous. jjf
Military coup could oust Obama Former White House speechwriter John L. Perry has courted controversy by suggesting that the U.S. Military, upholding their oath to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies, could stage a bloodless coup to oust President Obama. In an article originally posted on the Newsmax website, Perry wrote, âThere is a remote, although gaining, possibility Americaâs military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the âObama problem.â Donât dismiss it as unrealistic.â Despite the fact that Perry was not explicitly advocating such a coup, Newsmax later removed the article to ensure it âwas not misinterpretedâ. The article outlines how military officers, outraged at Obamaâs âtramplingâ on the Constitution, nationalization of American institutions, rising deficits, unemployment and taxes, could peaceably seize power from the âradical-left commissarsâ of the Obama administration. âMilitary intervention is what Obamaâs exponentially accelerating agenda for âfundamental changeâ toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obamaâs radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible,â writes Perry. It is important to stress that Perry is not a Neo-Con, he worked under the Democratic administrations of Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. Perry warns that America could be unrecognizable by 2012, prompting a coup to ârestore and defend the Constitution,â a prospect that is âweighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of Americaâs military leadership,â he writes Perry says that such a move could be accelerated if Israel were to bomb Iran, causing the Middle East to explode and a massive destabilization of the free world. Of course, the unlikely staging of a military coup could be just another ruse to implement martial law in the aftermath of what would undoubtedly ensue â mass civil unrest and a potential breakdown of society. More and more credible analysts are predicting that the United States could collapse in a Soviet-style breakdown within the next few years. In such a scenario, the vacuum of power created would leave the door open for the imposition of an even greater tyranny than we are witnessing today with Obamaâs big government Socialist agenda. It is far more likely that a military coup, even if it began as a genuine effort to ârestore the Constitution,â or âsolve the Obama problem,â would be hijacked and transformed into an effort to subjugate the entire country under a militarized police state to an even greater extent than it is now. The more probable scenario is the one that was outlined by Tommy Franks in a 2003 interview with the menâs lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado, where a military form of government would be implemented in the aftermath of a huge terror attack that kills millions. Franks predicted that another mass casualty terror attack would occur that would cause the âpopulation to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass http://www.prisonplanet.com/former-...-suggests-military-coup-could-oust-obama.html
According to reports, the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan use 800,000 gallons of gasoline per day. At $400 per gallon, that comes to a $320,000,000 daily fuel bill for the Marines alone. Only a country totally out of control would squander resources in this way. It costs $750,000 per year for each soldier we have in Afghanistan. http://www.takimag.com/article/usa--failed_state/
My bad. You are correct. I mixed up "casualties" with "deaths". Please substitute those two words in my post.