What are the greatest problems the US faces right now?

[DuncanK]

And the media compares Pearl Harbor to 9-11, which makes people think that Pearl Harbor was a terrorist attack. Which it wasn't.

[Ramo]

1. **** Cheney and his wonder-puppet, Dubya.
2. Karl Rove
3. Donald Rumsfeld

If the three above weren't there, about half of the problems on the list wouldn't be there.

The other half is John Ashcroft.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Ramo


The other half is John Ashcroft.

Ah, I knew I had missed someone...

[DanS]

You can tell that the Euros are stuffing the ballot box when the following is a top-rated problem...

Rift growing between US and its traditional allies

[Imran Siddiqui]

Abe Lincoln would be a Democrat if he were alive today.

And Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Andrew Jackson would be Republicans. What is your point?

[DuncanK]

I already voted for the economy, but I was thinking about another problem facing America. If Bush keeps getting our military tied up all over the world the Canadians could sneak attack. Notice on this very thread that frogger is defending the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[orange]

Re: What are the greatest problems the US faces right now?

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
Note: I know that Iraq, North Korea, and Al Qaeda are all bigger problems than say, the Economy. However, foreign policy and domestic issues are seperate problems, so you should not compare them.

Note: no they're not

[MrFun]

I voted for four top problems:

1) Al-Queda and its network

2) North Korea

3) tension between India and Pakistan

4) other civil rights issues


By the fourth problem, I am referring to the fact that homosexuals are still denied federal, equal protection under the Constitution of equal rights in terms of employment, housing, spouse tax benefits, and so forth.

There appears to be significant progress though, at business, city, and state levels in different parts of the United States.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DuncanK
I already voted for the economy, but I was thinking about another problem facing America. If Bush keeps getting our military tied up all over the world the Canadians could sneak attack. Notice on this very thread that frogger is defending the attack on Pearl Harbor.

CSIS is coming for you.

[MrFun]

Um, Frogger -- you defend Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?

[KrazyHorse]

No more than I "defend" Hitler's attack on Poland.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Frogger
No more than I "defend" Hitler's attack on Poland.

So you were misquoted?

[KrazyHorse]

But there was nothing "wrong" with it in the same sense that bombing civilians or machine-gunning prisoners is wrong.

And it certainly cannot be considered a terrorist attack in any reasonable sense of the word.

If the war is morally wrong (as Japan's war against the US was) then such an attack is morally wrong by extension. But if the war is morally right then such an attack would not be wrong on its own merits, as the indiscriminate bombing of cities would be, or as Japanese treatment of captive populations in mainland China was.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by MrFun


So you were misquoted?

Which quote? I see no quote saying that it was morally right for Japan to attack the US in December 1941...

[MrFun]

DuncanK made the claim that you defended Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -- unless that was in jest.