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The world is cruel, you have no standing army, you are dead.
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<p>Prove it.</p>
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If they have no army, soon the gangs and drug dealer would boom inside this chaotic country. And Burma, with its great natural resources, will quite possibly become another "ethnic autonomous region" of people's republic of china or a military base for USA.
The world is cruel, you have no standing army, you are dead.
That's why Russians are keeping their missiles working while having a shabby economy.</p>
<p>Real politics, real politics, it's all about politics, not about morality.
Sending more aids imply more nation building and less domestic spending which equates to larger foreign debt.
We must cut foreign aids! Stop nation building! Stop policing the world! and vote for RON PAUL!
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<p>And how are gangs any different from government? They are not.</p>
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people's mutual consent, and what causes this consent? President's power to influence and convince.
The former form of control consists of fear and oppression while the latter consists of a willing agreement by many. Both are methods of achieving legitimacy.
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<p>If these powers were truly legitimate, then they would not require violence to achieve their means. Face it, all government power is illegitimate since it is based upon violence.</p>