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Or you were being a dick for no reason.

If you wanted to make the point you claim you wanted to make why not just make it?

Why go out of your way to say JJ is wrong?

I have a serious question that is not in any way meant to be an insult.  In fact it would explain a lot and I would feel like a bit of a **** heel for responding the way I have to you and not recognizing it earlier. 

Have you ever been diagnosed with Asperger's?   

So have you been diagnosed as autistic? 

I would guess you are probably somewhere on the Asperger spectrum.  Obviously highly functional.     

This is not an insult.

https://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_2086.shtml





   

So have you been diagnosed as autistic? 
I would guess you are probably somewhere on the Asperger spectrum.  Obviously highly functional.     
This is not an insult.
https://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_2086.shtml

Alinsky's rules 5, 6, 7, and 13.

Jes,
 1812 the last time the U.S. was invaded ?
 SEE : Battle of Columbus New Mexico, March 9th 1916.
 Although territory's and not actual U.S. states ,
 see also : Guam, Wake Island , Kiska & Attu ...
 during WWII.
 BTW ... we were invaded on 9-11-2001.

I will assume that your mischaracterization of my position was not deliberate, but was instead the result of an effort at simplification.  That being the case, it is important to remember that often efforts at simplification result in serious distortion.

Now, could you go back and find anywhere that I wrote that 1812 was the last time the U.S. was invaded?

If you find it, please cut and paste it in your response, and make sure that in doing so, you include the entire sentence.  If you get that far, please before you click on "Post" actually READ what I wrote.

Now, regarding 9/11, since I was responding to YOUR comment that "you are here because they were there," and since I responded with a reference to "the last time our military really repelled any invasion of the United States and any effort to conquer us," could you explain how it was that our military repelled the 9/11 invasion?  All of the "invaders" died, and they did so without any military involvement in bringing about their deaths.

Again, I am not trying to discourage you from praising the service and sacrifice of our armed forces, but we are NOT here in this country because they were anywhere (unless, of course, you are talking about the military role in slaughtering and relocating native Americans so we could take their land).

Not a big problem Jes, here's your own words babes.
 

You are correct that those are my words, but what I asked you to do was to "find anywhere that I wrote that 1812 was the last time the U.S. was invaded"

The key sentence in what you cut and pasted from what I had written is, "The last time our military really repelled any invasion of the United States and any effort to conquer us was the War of 1812."  You simplified, and distorted, that into, "1812 the last time the U.S. was invaded," and added Pancho Villa's 1916 attack on a border town in New Mexico as an example supporting your claim my statement was wrong.

I direct your attention back to what I wrote, specifically the part I am setting in boldface here: "The last time our military really repelled any invasion of the United States and any effort to conquer us was the War of 1812."  If you are genuinely going to argue that you believe Villa was setting out to conquer the United States when he raided Columbus, instead of simply trying to steal badly needed weapons, ammunition and food, AND that if the Army had not defeated Villa at Columbus, then he would have conquered the rest of the nation and we genuinely would not be here as a result, I will strongly disagree with you, but will not bother to argue the point or further persuade you of your error, but that actually is what you have to believe for what you offered to serve as an example supporting your claim that my statement was wrong -- that Villa not only intended to conquer the U.S. when he raided Columbus, and that in the absence of the Army repelling Villa there, that Villa would have gone on to successfully conquer the United States such that you and I would not be here.

Jackie was accurate.

Taking the fight overseas stopped aggression on American soil.

What fight?

Jackie was wrong, though his comment did reflect conventional wisdom and for many conventional wisdom is tough to set aside, even when shown to be wrong.

What fight?

Obviously you didn't understand his post.

No.  The only thing obvious here is your reluctance to answer a rather simple question.

Before I respond to your comment, I simply want to assure that your position is clearly defined.

So I again ask you to define it -- what fight?