CJay said: There has only been one (allegedly middle-east) terrorist act in the USA - ever
Hm, I seem to remember a U-Haul filled with TNT under the World Trade Center a few years ago, and six islamic extremists getting life sentances for it. I also seem to remember 9/11. Which "one" of those two are you referring to?
Quote: The USA government has trained and condonned terrorists with a far greater frequency than that. Even good ole JFK sent terrorists into Cuba, starting the chain reaction that led to the Cuban missile crisis. And what is unprovoked invasion except for terror(ism) on the grandest scale.
No, an unprovoked invasion isn't terrorism. It is an act of war. Don't abuse that blanket word of "terrorism" that gets thrown around all the time today.
Quote: Perhaps if the USA and other bullying intrusive Western governments just stop screwing with other countries and their economies
No more foreign aide? No more supporting red cross troops in areas where the local warlords are killing them? Fine with me.
Quote: Perhaps if they went back on their age old policy in the middle east - which has been to provoke wars and supply weapons to the region seeing how much oil can be robbed in the meantime.(Classic divide and rule tactics).
"age old"? it can't possibly be more than 60 years old. Do I need to educate you on the history of that region?
Quote: Maybe terrorists would not then be created.
Gee, it's nice to know that at the end of the day, it's still all the US's fault.
Quote: Who makes the terrorists? The governments of the UK, USA and other western powers with their heartless foreign policy.
Interesting concept. Why then, pray tell, aren't their terrorists from the South American states that we have such a "heartless" foreign policy with? Could it be because they don't follow a extremist religion with leaders who encourage their behavior? Of course not, it's the US's fault!
Quote: I don't see terrorists from the middle east attacking any nations who haven't f**ked with their home nation(s)....I wonder why?
Because you are too ignorant to read newspapers? What did Bali do to the middle east?
Quote: whisper words of wisdom - let it be, let it be........
Your ignorance? I won't "let it be".
Quote: If the USA and other so called 'developed' countries had traded fairly for middle east oil from the beginning, if they had not supplied crazy amounts of weapons, and if they had not supported cruel regimes - there would be no retalliation now.
How could we have traded fairly and not supported the cruel regiems? The regime in Saudi Arabia falls into my definition of "cruel", how aren't we being fair in our trade with them, and how should we modify that so we aern't supporting them? Should we lead a war into the area? Somehow I don't think you'll be supporting that. Should we have the CIA use their power to train insurgents in the area? Nope, you don't want that either. how about we just wave the magic wand o' liberals and make it all better, and hte USA could just disappear?
Quote: The simplicity of it is astounding.
If by "it" you mean "my brain", then yes, it's astounding.
Quote: Wouldn't you agree that supplying arms to small time dictators is pretty morally lacking? (besides being insane)
Geez, I thought you meant Israel until you got to this point. What Arab nations are we supplying with weapons? What are you on?
Quote: Wouldn't you say that supporting dictators until they decide you are not pulling their strings, then making them out to suddenly be a bad guy even though they are governing the same way they have done for years (with your support)is pretty morally lacking? (besides being insane)
What option would you have? Stop our "un fair trade" with the arab nations that we are oppressing, supporting, and arming, and stop arming Israel? You have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps OTD would be a great place to hang out ?
Quote: Wouldn't you say that attacking nations for the acts of small renegade groups of people is pretty morally lacking? (besides being insane)
Not if the leaders of the nation support them. Wouldn't you say that watching an area like Afghanistan exist with their huge human rights "issues" is morally lacking? Watching women getting executed for not wearing their burkahs and saying "well golly, thats fine with us, we'll just stop our unfair trade practises and things will work out fine" is pretty insane?
Quote: I mean why not declare war on the nation Ireland because the IRA are holed up there? doh!
Because the leadership of Ireland isn't supporting and condoning their actions. "doh".
Quote: And why pick Saddam and Afganistan? I mean N.Korea brags about it's WMD, is run by a cruel dictator......oh but there's no oil there..... and they have real WMD.......eeek!
Ok fine, we'll make you happy. We'll go to war with North Korea.
Quote: All dictators are equal under the law - except Saddam. Strange that...
No other dictators in the region have signed cease fire agreements saying that they wouldn't do certain things. And you'll recall that the evil US/Zionists didn't invade Kuwait and start the whole fucking affair.
Quote: The UN was set up to stop wars like this happening, perhaps if the UN was respected and not used and abused by its most powerful member - wars like this wouldn't happen.
We owe nothing to the UN. If htey don't like what we are doing, we'll resign our positions in the UN and let them do what they want.
Quote: Everyone's scratching their heads wondering how to bring peace - what to do.
Everyone but you, with your lack of knowledge of the middle east, it's history and the causes of terrorism. Oh, and your lack of a terrorist attack thath appened less than 15 years ago. You sure are shining brightly, little star!
Quote: I mean 'mission accomplished' - a year ago - doh! Look at all the peace that has been brought to the region.
Ok, compare current Iraq with pre-war Iraq. How many bloodthirsty dictators are in charge now? Don't most of the Iraqi's support the war? Geez, I can't beleive I spent this much time with someone who thinks that their was only "one" mid-east terror attack on the USA. peace is peace - not war
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