tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post4541348550388137166..comments2024-03-27T11:10:52.382-07:00Comments on On My Mind: Various MattersJayhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-34053660663906348052013-04-09T12:25:30.141-07:002013-04-09T12:25:30.141-07:00Warfare via remote control, like using drones is a...Warfare via remote control, like using drones is a way of minimizing casualties and losses, which is a perfectly acceptable military tactic. It would be similiar to a remote controlled IED, for example. Used against a military target that can fight back is not really a cowardly attack, they are using what personnel, materials and tactical advantages are available to them.<br /><br />One aspect to the cowardly part is that it is not a battle with an armed enemy, they are killing unarmed civilians who are trying to help not harm. Okay, that is our definition of help, and theirs is likely opposite; insomuch that it runs counter to their traditions.<br /><br />==================<br /><br />I'm sure no one is truly neutral or altruistic in reporting job numbers, and taken within a narrow scope or with caveats, go ahead and use those. In a larger picture, there are still a lot of people unemployed, and not very many jobs available to them. And not much has changed in the last few years and I'm not holding my breath that anyone or anything will change that. And I do NOT believe anything that politicians say about "creating jobs" - it's a buzzword for them, nothing more.<br /><br />==================<br /><br />I'm not particularly sympathetic to the immigrants "plight". And I thnk it's annoyingly arrogant of them to knowingly be illegal and then claim discrimination or suffering or whatever, and then demand a way to become citizens. What arrogance!<br /><br />Every country has a right to control it's borders and set immmigration and citizenship laws. ANd most a re more strict than us and are often harsher in enforcing it.<br /><br />No, I don't like to see families broken up, but they made that choice and they knew it had the chance to bite them at some point. If the children are minors or something, then it harder on them, especially if they have no knowledge of the customs of the home country. Those that have known nothing else since infancy /young age are for practical purposes americanized in all but name.<br /><br />Here's a concept: make them legal in some way (temporary resident alien, renewable every 5 yrs or something) and not necessarily citizenship right away. That way they are "out of the shadows", don't have a permanent "get out of jail free" card and don't get the perks that people that followed the rules get (at least right away).<br /><br />==================<br /><br />Europe is having problems, and I'm not convinced we really have a "recovery". Too much is intertwined nowadays, and if Europe &/or China have problems, we are not insulated from it.<br /><br />Stock market increasing is great... if you have money to buy stocks or are lucky /smart /rich enough to have owned them already. Where's the jobs and salaries to make the money available to buy them?<br /><br />Oh, right... we have a "jobless reovery".<br />brucenoreply@blogger.com