A response to Uncle Sam, and where we go from here

Day 478, 18:09 • Published in USA USA • by mngoose33

After reading Uncle Sam�s latest article, I decided to finally pony up the gold and start a newspaper to put in my two cents. So, here goes:

The premise of Sam’s article is to apologize for the horrendous chain-of-events over the past 48 hours. I probably speak for many when I say that although we appreciate the apology, it’s not really what we’re looking for right now. We need a plan of attack (or defense, as the case may be), and repeating concepts like “Let’s stay together, guys!” and railing against foreign trolls and obnoxious protestors with limited vocabularies ain’t gonna cut it if/when Portugal comes knocking on our door.

I don’t want to dwell on the past, but let’s take a look at some of the recent decisions that have been made:

(1) Why, after being promised “war games” (i.e., simulated war, not a massive power grab) in several campaign articles, did we continue to march into Mexico even after we had taken not one (which is all we needed), but THREE Mexican regions?

(2) Why didn’t we notify ATLANTIS of our intention to take a couple Mexican regions? All we had to do was explain the situation: we want to take a region so we can play war games and boost our military strength and citizen experience (not to mention have a little fun). It is clearly in ATLANTIS’s interest to have a stronger U.S. military, and the war games are completely in line with that.

(3) What was our motive for trying to conquer Mexico? Resources? As several people have pointed out, Mexico doesn’t have anything better than what we have, so taking over Mexico doesn’t really get us much of anything except closer to our enemies.

(4) Are decisions being made unilaterally? I inferred from Sam’s article that between (mis)managing the war and negotiating with ATLANTIS, he’s been unable to give either activity the attention it requires. We have a lot of great minds in our society (scrabman and jewitt come to mind, but I’m a newb and I’m sure there many others). Were they consulted?


Moving forward, I think we need to move forward on the following initiatives:

(1) Begin building Q4 or Q5 defense systems in all southern border states. We should have done this already (and on the northern border, too), but we need to start now. I know New Mexico needs one, so lets start there.

(2) We need to get our best economic minds together and come up with a way to adjust our economy so that it is more war-friendly when we need it to be. We cannot allow weapons prices to spike in wartime, just as we cannot allow food shortages in peacetime. There are many people who know more than I do about how this could be done. Let’s figure it out.

(3) Soften our emphasis on gift-giving programs and housing development, and increase our focus on building weapons high-quality hospitals. We do not need gifts and houses in times of war as long as we live in regions with good hospitals, and it’s a waste of resources to keep building them.

(4) Do everything in our power to hold at least one Mexican region. This is crucial because we must be able to start resistance wars to strengthen our military and gain experience points.

With all due respect our President, I am not entirely sure what we were thinking when we expanded this war. We need to move forward and follow our leaders, but this kind of irresponsible decision-making should be remembered on April 5.

mngoose33