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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
my question to you is simple al, would you rather have the us military walking around protecting people in africa or eliminating the people that are a direct threat to you and me?
the us has sent military forces to africa before, they got kicked out by the local government. although i am sure hte sentiment has changed a bit since that happened in the late 80's, it can't be easy to jsut show up and offer to play cop for a puppet government and some well armed loonies.
i don't see any problem with who the US has gone after, however i do certainly question some of the methods and timing. of course, it is easy to question the situation when we are only offered whatever version of the "truth" is offered from the governments spin and then filtered through teh spin of thepopular press.
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the US military got booted from a terribly poor third world part of the planet and yet we managed to over take all of Iraq while going against the UN....I dont know, that just doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me.
and why protect the tens of millions of people getting killed in africa? well you said it yourself. We're the worlds last standing super power and we have to go out and protect the world from itself.
We also need to spread democracy to every corner of the globe because whats good for the goose is good for the gander. Nevermind the
slight resistance that we've been encountering the entire time we've been in the middle east, they'll thank us later after we break down their society and give them a society that
we see for for them to live in. If our way of live works for us, the most powerful nation in the world, it will surely work in the middle of the desert.
I am not opposed to fighting terror. I do think that we should go out and kick some ass after being attacked. but the whole situation with the war in Iraq stinks to high hell!
try thinking about it this way...
Suppose for a minute that America wasn't the greatest super power in the world. lets say for now that we were somewhere around 5th. I'll just make up a country like panama to be number one (very hypothetical). well, say a small group of people from our country went out and attacked panama. every single other person in america didnt know that was gonna happen, save for a few politicians. but on crap! panama is pissed! the rest of the world knows that invading america and over throwing their government just because a select few officials granted the american terrorists a little freedom is not the right thing to do. the people of panama are outraged and want something done about this and rightfully so. so panama talks it over with the rest of the world and says they want to invade america and declare war on them. the rest of the world knows that all of america wasnt responsible, so they tell panama to cool their jets, come up with a plan and go after the organization that actually commited the acts. panama says F that, we're taking america over...and they do.
now think about how you would feel about all this. the greatest power in the world has just invaded your country, overthrown your government and hunted and captured your president. Now the people of america are starting to get pissed. how could panama be so irrational as to punish an entire nation for the acts of a select few? so the americans do what the feel is right...they fight back. I know I sure as hell wouldn't want soldiers walking around my town telling me what to do and pointing guns in my face. and panama is trying to setup a governemt that you dont want. great. we went from being content to being completely miserable because panama had a chip on its shoulder and instead of going after the real criminals, they changed every aspect of our american lives.
the end.
I wish to god that we had never tried to force our governmental systems upon the people of Iraq. I wish we spent more time getting
useful intel (not torturing someone at gitmo until they lie just to make you stop). if the terrorists we were after crossed the border into afghanistan, why didnt we follow them there? we already invaded one counrty without a
TRUE reason, why not another? America has the balls to completely change an entire country, but we cant track down a few terrorists. we send all those troops over there, but we negelct to send them with body armor. thousands of young americans killed and billions of dollars spent... what do we have to show for it?