Originally posted by: theredbaron
Better still, that money could have been used to eliminate world poverty. The U.S. annual military expenditure is $3 trillion. Why not use that money to eliminate the conditions that produce terrorists: like poverty, despondancy, hunger, disease, and revenge?
If America was an unequivocally benevolent superpower in this world, any terrorists that remained would have no leg to stand on - they would be evil beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Better still, that money could have been used to eliminate world poverty. The U.S. annual military expenditure is $3 trillion. Why not use that money to eliminate the conditions that produce terrorists: like poverty, despondancy, hunger, disease, and revenge?
If America was an unequivocally benevolent superpower in this world, any terrorists that remained would have no leg to stand on - they would be evil beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Yeah, 'cause everyone knows poverty will go away if you just throw money at it and have rock concerts (sell those t-shirts!).