[cityofghosts]

World War 1 ended. The entire premise of free society is that war comes to an end, there is a such a thing as peacetime. Somehow that idea has died, and with it morality and social conscience. Comparing our spat with a few mountain dwelling cavemen on cellphones with a global War to threatened the existence of civilization itself is beyond ignorant. It's criminal intellectual negligence.

[dang]

Please don't post ideological rants to Hacker News. Whatever your point is intended to be, flamebait drowns it out and has the side effect of wrecking this place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[cobookman]

You could argue that the US has done a great job protecting us. Hence why you view it as a non threat.

We shouldnt be as naive as the Romans.