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By Jin on Feb 20, 2007 in Razno, Zunanja politika
Američani bodo do konca prihodnjega leta za svoje vojne zapravili približno 690 milijard $. Le poglejte si to številko. Počasi jo premislite. Ne, vaš prenosni računalnik ni merilo! Ne, vaša hiša niti približno ni vredna toliko. Ne, tudi če dodate celotno vrednost vaše soseske. Madona, še cela Slovenija verjetno ni vredna toliko. Dobro premislite to številko.
Kaj Američani dobijo za ta denar? No, razen tega da nekateri njihovi bolj neumni analitiki trdijo, da so zaradi tega bolj varni, nič. Se je njihova moča za ta denar povečala? Ni se. Je njihova vojska toliko bolj močna? Ni. Imajo vsaj imperij? V sanjah bedakov je katastrofa, ki je Irak, tudi delujoč imperij, ampak oni itak nimajo radi te besede. Veste, imperiji so drugi, ta hudobni. Oni so branik svobode. Yeah, right!
690 milijard $. Kaj vse se da za ta denar kupiti. Če nisi Američan seveda. Indija bo za borih 10 milijard $ kupila 126 bojnih letal in s tem izrazito povečala svojo moč.
Naj malo premislim. Američani imajo za 690 milijard $ dve, eno bolj, drugo manj, izgubljeni vojni, Indijci bodo za 10 milijard $ imeli 126 novih bojnih letal? Ehm, je mogoče, da so ti Indijci malo bolj pametni kot edina preostala supersila? Teh 126 letal bo letalo še dolgo, medtem ko bodo Američani svoj porabljen in uničen material lahko kvečjemu vrgli na odpad.
What does the USA get for $690 billion? The hatred and disgust of the entire world, that’s what.
BTW, the link you provided takes you to Margolis’s main page, not the specific article you probably had in mind.
Jean | Feb 21, 2007 | Reply
In former Yugoslavia there was a saying: “Prvo skoci - onda reci hop.” (first jump
then make noise). Perhaps we should stop doing due dilligence of
American investments and start doing our own. After all Americans
being only 5% of planets population DO produce 25% of all worlds wealth. And
as you put it so gallantly and directly - our entire countrys net worth IS less
then their Iraq liberation effort
I know it is fashionable for people on welfare to teach professional asset managers
about wise investmet - and it is not the first neither the last unreal fashion
in the chronicles of worlds history.
For example “the hatred and disgust of the entire world” in past century had
its heights in 50ties, 70ties and 80ties and todays is but a fraction of this.
One should know that average citizen of “the entire world” thinks that socialism is
good and free choice is bad so why would anyone civilized care about their opinion?
Tomaž | Feb 21, 2007 | Reply
Jean, link popravljen. Margolis, zopet.
Jin | Feb 22, 2007 | Reply