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Yup...Those indomitable Swiss, just sitting peacefully in their mountain redoubts counting gold concentration camp teeth atop pallets of loot deposited by the world's criminals and dictators while their kids shoot heroin in parks.

Nonjudgmental nonintervention with a penchant for not asking inconvenient questions can be quite profitable during interesting times. Just ask the Swedes.

monkeyboy needs to get a clue about WWII and what the Swiss needed to do in order to survive.

pst314

The fundamental problem with your critique is that I actually have "a clue about WWII and what the Swiss needed to do".

Every city large enough to be seen by satellite could have been melted on Sept 12, but they weren't. Whether it's pleasant or not, our enemies learn lessons from what we do. We have taught them our lives are cheap and we will lose many more before this over.

Missile operators in Montana and North Dakota might have to give up a coffee break to solve this problem or we could keep trying to build schools in a war zone with "kick me" signs on the backs of soldiers.

A government that won't defend you deserves no support from you.

If you really had a clue, monkeyboy, you wouldn't have thrown that stupid and irrelevant turd into the punchbowl. But then, monkeys do like to throw feces.

Look, I despise the Choomster in Chief *spit* as much as the next sentient being, but maybe you could tell us about the First Barbary War instead of appealing to the authority of cherry-picked quotes from brainyquote.

Perhaps you might start the healing process by enlightening little ol' ignorant me about how the aforementioned undeclared war related to President Jefferson, foreign entanglements, John Quincy Adams, and the The Marines' Hymn...You know: "From the Halls of Montezuma, To the Shores of Tripoli..."

HINT: You might consider starting this journey to adventure with a quick review of The Jefferson Papers.

Anyway, I'd still like to know how the Swiss get to enjoy your 'get out of perdition free card' for never having to engage in icky foreign entanglements while enjoying the fruits of every foreign entanglement...'Cause you never really explained that.

...Or maybe you and your tag team buddy can just continue [transparently] trying to save virtual face by flinging poo in desperation -like democrats- while accusing me of flinging poo.

It don't really matter to me. I'm just some random internet dude who finds monkeys entertaining.

Judgement. It's a problem, and especially so in politics.

Washington used every last ounce of respect and credibility he had remaining within the American citizen to keep the country out of the French Revolution. No one else could have done it. Adams carried that philosophy to the Muslim pirates, which were costing the US Treasury a large portion of their entire budget.

Jefferson, who took part in hostage negotiation when he was Ambassador to France, did not make foreign entanglements through the Barbary Wars, he ended them.

When he wrote those words John Quincy Adams did not disapprove of Jefferson's war. He despised Islam on a practical as well as moral level.

Foreign wars did not mean foreign entanglements at that time. Now they do.

Thank you Mr. Wilson.

I did notice however that there was need for a Second Barbary War...And arguably we have essentially resumed paying the modern equivalent of Dane-geld to the would-be pashas of an embriotic Caliphate.