Spencer's Super-Happy Fun-Time Right-Wing Word Pit

I spend part of my day checking an RSS feed at the top of my browser window that links to digg.com. For those of you who do not know what digg.com is, it is a place where pimply faced teenagers and 'smarter-than-us' college students post and comment about news stories. Most of the time, the news stories are pretty cool but there seems to be a proclivity to post neo-political drivel and incite a riotous mix of acne cream and tin foil hats in a comment system that is dominated by the insane and trolled by those of us who do not believe that President Bush actually drinks the blood of starving pre-school kids from an impoverished village in Kenya while strangling kittens. My fun is derived from reading what other people seem to believe as fact knowing full well that such views belong in the movie 'Conspiracy Theory'.

Some little know facts about the wold according to Digg.com are as follows:

George Bush is a Nazi bent on creating a fascist regime in the US.
9/11 was in fact perpetrated by the Bush administration for the sole purpose of starting a war in Iraq.
Police Officers using a tazer to non-lethally subdue some idiot is tantamount to a police state in America.
The wealthy in America have stolen all their wealth from the rest of the world and need to be stopped.
The Earth will burst into flames in about 5 years.
Terrorists are freedom fighters and can be compared to American Revolutionaries.
Christian religions are fairy tales and need to be stopped at all costs.

You get the picture. Digg.com is probably the most entertaining website on the net next to http://badgerbadgerbadger.com (turn up your sound before visiting).
So...
I regularly troll the diggs in search of daily entertainment. And the other day I found a real gem. I found the greatest National Defense argument ever. Some blogger had posted a write-up on an 'anonymous' soldier who opposes the war and says we should put down all of our weapons and walk away. ...right...
The conversation went like this:

ifm1989 posts...
"War seemed to work for us in the Independence War
Let's face it, man is not perfect. The Romans used to say 'To prepare for peace, you must prepare for war.'"

Then some smarmy college kid named Acewrap just knew in his heart of hearts that he had the comeback to end all comebacks. He states:
"How are the Romans doing these days?"

OH SNAP! - of course their civilization did not survive. How could the Romans possibly be used as a credible source for an argument. Acewrap nailed it... until...
Pay attention 'cause this is where it gets good...

blackhawk919 serves up the most appropriate piece of truth pie ever.
"They're dead. The died when they were caught unprepared for war."

That's right, they're dead. You see, between 379 and 395, Theodosis opened the borders along the Danube to the Visigoths. Sound familiar? Then peace agreements were made with the Middle Eastern Countries and the Roman Military began integrating foreigners (mainly Germanic) into their ranks. Things really went downhill from there. The military, largely un-patriotic to the cause of Rome due to regional and ethnic backgrounds just did not have the resolve to win as the legions of old.

National Defense is important. If you do not believe me, just look at Neville Chamberlain's words from September of 1938:

"How horrible, fantastic it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing."

Way to go, Neville.
Don't get me wrong, peace is awesome, you just can't achieve it as a nation by walking away because you will get shot in the back.

Spence