BobbyMike
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quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
[devils advocate mode]
You would if you lived say in Bagdad
Or were a palastine in the gaza strip, where your house can be attacked by US funded israeli soldiers..
What is the difference between Terrorist mastermind funded suicide attacks and political mastermind funded military attacks?
[\devils advocate mode]
There is not one country in the world that can make any semblence of a claim to be guilt free. It is always on which side you (meaning anyone who takes a side) choose to see as the underdog, righteous, etc that will be seen as right.
The Arab nations had many chances to construct an atmosphere in which the Palestines and the Israelis could live in peace. They choose to attack the Israelis numerous times, causing the Israelis to respond in an equally harsh manner. Blaming Israeli for Palestinians living in fear is not quite the full picture (nor saying it's the USAs fault). Man will never learn to live on this world without violence. As long as there is free choice you will have disagreement. As long as you have disagreement you will have violence.
Europe (and much of the world) acts as if our present day circumstances are unique, but you can change the name of the countries and find nearly the same situations (lacking only perhaps in weapons of mass destruction). England, France, Spain, Portugel, the Ottoman Turks, the Dutch, etc. have all been at, or near the top at some time in the last 500-700 years and have had nearly identical complaints thrown against them, some even legitmate!
America has power because it's cultural, military and economic might are unmatched in the world at present. Naturally we do many things to please ourselves because we don't feel we fell into the lead, we took it. Is America perfect, or even close? No, just on top right now. If China ever gets it together, we might not be. Can the EU ever hope to accomplish the feat of being number one? I doubt it, unless they can truly act as one instead of wasting so much energy rehashing ancient territorial feuds and playing superiority games with their neighbors. Our system, creaky and noisy as it is, works better than anyone elses. We are the top dog and we catch all the cr*p because people like to blame number one for the mess they are in. It's human nature.
Should America stop putting it's interests first? Should any country?
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Originally posted by Abid
Although not exactly the best site to put forward this discussion, there are some other non-relevant threads here with intelligent comments offered for discussion so I thought what the heck.
Thank you for your second post. I think you made an excellent choice of a site to post this on, I can't think of many other sites that have such a wide range of people frequenting it.
As to your remarks about terrorists, with the recent incident with the Red Brigade on Italy on my mind I am going to suggest that the true(r) motive of the terrorist is to violently force change through action because they (the terrorist) doesn't feel there is any chance of their goals being met otherwise. Terrorists always strike first and make demands later.
How can a terrorist even think he can make the world a better place without killing everyone who disagrees with him?
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