The reason why they are warships is their ability to desalinize sea water. Amphibious (troops ships) have a huge capacity to do this as well as stock tons of needed supplies. It isn't like they are firing missles ashore.
Burma refuses aid from U.S. warships for cyclone victims
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Yes, because we all know US supported dictators are so much better :roll: Certainly there have been more of them.
Anyway, I don't really have a problem with dictatorships. Democracy is every bit as violent as dictatorships, we're just insulated here by our undying love for propaganda and our fantastic wealth we gained through pillage. When a dictator puts a person in prison its oppression when we do it we're upholding the law.
How OLD are you?
Appeal to ad populum won't win this argument.
Giving into unjustified authority isn't mature it's stupid.
So, if the authority of a duly elected government in a constitutional liberal democracy that operates strictly under rule of law is NOT justified...........what authority is justified?
I ask your age simply because your ideas are simply immature. I don't mean that to be insulting, one can hardly help being young.....and the condition passes.
Unfortunately, in some ways.
But
I was a Marxist at 16.
My son was a serious anarchist at 16.
Believe me, you grow out of it.
Your brain is not fully developed until around 25 years of age. Fact.
If you are young, well, I understand. Churchill said (paraphrased) "If you're not a communist at 16, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain"
I agree. If you are a teenage anarchist, well, at least you can string together a coherent sentence.
If you are over 25, you're an idiot.
I can see by your remark that you were not a serious anarchist or you would understand the concept. Unfortunately most "anarchists" are silly children, like you, that think anarchy is running through the streets vandalizing property.
Democracy is consensus and consensus is violence because it requires acquiescence, that is, giving into what you may not believe or want simply because it isn't what the "majority" (currently about 14% of the population) wants. In this way you must give in. If you don't people with guns and body armour will show up at your door and inflict more violence on you until you do comply. This isn't a fair, noble or peaceful system; it is democracy; it is violence institutionalized. Is it better than a dictatorship or a kingdom? That depends only on who the "majority" is and where they stand according to you.
I'll put it into simpler terms for you. If Sharia law became the norm in Canada (as is likely one day) then being a Christian will become very much more difficult. The majority will want Sharia law, which means you will comply with it, just like now we have Christian law and everyone must now comply with it. Is that fair to you?
Now I see by your generous offer in your argument of my limited choices, that either I'm young or stupid if I'm an anarchist, that you understand the violent nature of our system well and are fully able, willing and eager to exploit it.
I will however offer some other options to your argument: I know what I'm talking about and you're a fool, you're comfortable with the system because you can't understand anything more, you're comfortable because it affords you an advantage, you have so fully complied that you have lost yourself completely, You need to feel right (and that which you subscribe to is right) about everything despite all countervailing evidence, etc... So you see there are more options than the two you are attempting to foist on me.
So, since I am older than 25 and not a fool, It seems logical to assume that means either you don't understand anarchism, are a fool yourself, or more likely, that both are true.
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When a liberal constitutional democracy.....(I'd like to see how one defines this critter) ostensibly subscribing to the "rule of law".... practices regime-change through supply of weapons and intelligence to a particular faction involved in the overthrow/rebellion taking place somewhere else in the world...that's perfectly OK!
When this amazing critter invades some other country on the pretext that this "rogue" dictatorship is being untruthful about amassing weapons of mass destruction and presents an "urgent necessity" to miltary action ....to preserve world peace....that's pefectly OK!
When this critter is then exposed as having decimated another country and having had ample opportunity to demonstrate evidence that was alluded to prior to the "invasion" of "ugent necessity" yet fails to provide this hard evidence and instead that nation is reduced to mayhem and on-going violence...well that's perfectly OK....
The Colpy Rules.
When this amazing critter invades some other country on the pretext that this "rogue" dictatorship is being untruthful about amassing weapons of mass destruction and presents an "urgent necessity" to miltary action ....to preserve world peace....that's pefectly OK!
When this critter is then exposed as having decimated another country and having had ample opportunity to demonstrate evidence that was alluded to prior to the "invasion" of "ugent necessity" yet fails to provide this hard evidence and instead that nation is reduced to mayhem and on-going violence...well that's perfectly OK....
The Colpy Rules.