Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Politics and Other Controversies
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
View Poll Results: What was a bigger failure
War on drugs 20 71.43%
War in Iraq 8 28.57%
Voters: 28. You may not vote on this poll

Closed Thread Start New Thread
 
Old 06-01-2013, 10:05 AM
 
6,331 posts, read 5,209,760 times
Reputation: 1640

Advertisements

I'm leaning towards Reagan's war on drugs, just say no isn't working

 
Old 06-01-2013, 10:13 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
11,345 posts, read 16,702,711 times
Reputation: 13370
Ok, I'll bite and be first.

Obama continuance of the war in the middle east and expanding it.

"Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it"

58,000 American lives were lost in Vietnam for nothing.

When are we going to learn that we can't be the worlds police.
 
Old 06-01-2013, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
29,094 posts, read 26,005,925 times
Reputation: 6128
Isn't it interesting how the lefties are trying to distract from the absolute disaster of the scandal-ridden, recession plagued, and prestige lowering Obama administration by pretending that he isn't in office now and that Bush and Reagan are?

Liberals live in a fantasy land - they are incapable of dealing with reality.
 
Old 06-01-2013, 10:21 AM
 
3,846 posts, read 2,384,507 times
Reputation: 390
Quote:
Originally Posted by camaro69 View Post
Ok, I'll bite and be first.

Obama continuance of the war in the middle east and expanding it.

"Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it"

58,000 American lives were lost in Vietnam for nothing.
Nothing?!

It strengthened the entire Military Industrial Complex and provided civilian and military jobs.

At least 58,000 people died of work related injuries performing on civilian.
 
Old 06-01-2013, 10:25 AM
 
Location: The Woodlands
805 posts, read 1,872,304 times
Reputation: 1077
Quote:
Originally Posted by camaro69 View Post
"Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it",.......When are we going to learn that we can't be the worlds police.
Appeasement in the 1930s ended with upto 70 million dead. Without the US being the world's police things will get very ugly again. However, public attitudes are changing and with our finances the way the are it does look like the US's is changing its stance away from its previous role.



Appeasement - World War 2 on History
 
Old 06-01-2013, 10:34 AM
 
Location: Flippin AR
5,513 posts, read 5,240,443 times
Reputation: 6243
They are both not only catastrophic wastes of money, but counter-productive.

The War on Drugs ensures that people with legitimate pain problems--particularly those at the end of their lives--are drastically under-medicated and often have their pain meds stolen entirely while they writhe in agony for 8 long hours (my Dad, for instance). The War on Iraq incited terrorism and will put Americans at risk long into the future.

In terms of total damage done to America, the War on Drugs wins.

The only way Washington WON'T continue to spend our money on things that destroy our quality of life, is if it is DRASTICALLY cut back to be the small and powerless centralized government that the Founding Fathers knew was REQUIRED for freedom to exist.
 
Old 06-01-2013, 11:04 AM
 
Location: USA - midwest
5,944 posts, read 5,583,390 times
Reputation: 2606
Default What is a bigger failure, Reagan's war on drugs or Bush's war on Iraq?

Hard to say, really.

But the "war on drugs" is a war on ourselves, so that one might have a slight lead in the race to the bottom.
 
Old 06-01-2013, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
37,802 posts, read 41,008,695 times
Reputation: 62204
I'm going with The War on Poverty as the biggest failure. It's been around a very long time and more people get government handouts than ever before.
 
Old 06-01-2013, 11:11 AM
 
Location: planet octupulous is nearing earths atmosphere
13,621 posts, read 12,730,207 times
Reputation: 20050
they are the same, both a total failure, 10s of thousands of people killed,10s of thousands were injured and trillions of wasted dollars in the crapper..
 
Old 06-01-2013, 11:28 AM
 
Location: One of the 13 original colonies.
10,190 posts, read 7,953,123 times
Reputation: 8114
What is a bigger failure






That would be Obama.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.


Closed Thread


Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Politics and Other Controversies

All times are GMT -6. The time now is 06:05 PM.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top