Comments on: Using Our Armed Forces to Do Good http://enableate.com/steve/2007/850 make it happen Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:08:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Dan http://enableate.com/steve/2007/850#comment-12146 Dan Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:53:23 +0000 http://enableate.com/steve/2007/850#comment-12146 Use of naval forces in deterring piracy doesn't have a whole lot in common with an amphibious invasion of a sovereign nation. As for what I "would of" done? If you want to set up a hypothetical situation and ask me what I would do, you'll have to explain what you are talking about: 1: At what date am I making this decision? 2: What information do I have to access to at this time? 3: Who am I? What sort of policy-making responsibility do I actually have, in whichever nation I apparently have the power to do something that involves making a foreign policy decision within? Or am I just an abstract personification of a particular nation in this hypothetical situation? Use of naval forces in deterring piracy doesn’t have a whole lot in common with an amphibious invasion of a sovereign nation.

As for what I “would of” done? If you want to set up a hypothetical situation and ask me what I would do, you’ll have to explain what you are talking about:

1: At what date am I making this decision?
2: What information do I have to access to at this time?
3: Who am I? What sort of policy-making responsibility do I actually have, in whichever nation I apparently have the power to do something that involves making a foreign policy decision within? Or am I just an abstract personification of a particular nation in this hypothetical situation?

]]> By: steve http://enableate.com/steve/2007/850#comment-12145 steve Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:05:02 +0000 http://enableate.com/steve/2007/850#comment-12145 Using out military to help out other countries is the opposite of an isolationist policy. Hell you're not even sure you would of intervened in WW2 a much more understandable example of turning away from an isolationist policy. Using out military to help out other countries is the opposite of an isolationist policy. Hell you’re not even sure you would of intervened in WW2 a much more understandable example of turning away from an isolationist policy.

]]> By: Dan http://enableate.com/steve/2007/850#comment-12144 Dan Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:44:48 +0000 http://enableate.com/steve/2007/850#comment-12144 I'm unclear as to why this should piss me off. I suppose a smaller patrol vessel would be a more cost-effective anti-piracy ship than an $800,000,000 destroyer, but you know... whatever floats your boat. I’m unclear as to why this should piss me off. I suppose a smaller patrol vessel would be a more cost-effective anti-piracy ship than an $800,000,000 destroyer, but you know… whatever floats your boat.

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