Quote from blah12345678:
"... The War on Terror is a just a catchphrase that gives the US Government the license to do whatever they want to whomever they please.
Quote from blah12345678:
What is the "War on Terror"?
- is it when other cultures/peoples get mad at the American jingoism?
- is it when other cultures/peoples get mad because we give aid to their enemies?
- is it when the IMF/World Bank/US Corporations *invade* other countries with the *benefits of capitalism* via loans they can't pay back (but the spreadsheets and PowerPoint slides say they can), then yank the rug out from under them after American contractors get all that loan money back?
- is it when the US *invades* another country under the guise of "rooting out terror/making the world safer for democracy", but all we really do is exploit their resources for our own gain (for all you history buffs, this is actually right out of the WWII Nazi/Japanese playbook)
The War on Terror is a just a catchphrase that gives the US Government the license to do whatever they want to whomever they please.
Just like the War of Drugs....
Quote from Scataphagos:
CORRECTAMUNDO!
America should defend OUR shores and BUTT OUT!
WHAT OTHER COUNTRY IS CONSTANTLY INTERVENING IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS? (The ones doing so on their own initiative... not the ones who are just following America's lead.)
WHY SHOULD WE?
Not saying we should be complete isolationists... but good grief! No wonder half the world hates us.
Oh, and BTW... FUCK OBAMA, HILARY, PELOSI, REID, MAXINE WATERS, BOXER, FEINSTEIN, CHUCK SCHUMER, AND ALL OF THE REST OF THE ANTI-AMERICAN, POWER-HUNGRY, LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAPS!! (GWB, TOO! He was a SHIT president!)
![]()
Quote from teaparty:
"... we should also protect the innocent from oppression, like we did in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and, with the drones, in Pakistan.
Quote from Scataphagos:
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. America is 3% of the world's population. We can't and should not try and cannot afford to "protect everybody from themselves".
ME countries have been warring among themselves for THOUSANDS of years before America was little but a dream. What gives us the right or obligation to interfere in their mess?
Quote from teaparty:
As a superior nation, we need to help those who are inferior. It is the Christian thing to do.
Quote from Scataphagos:
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. America is 3% of the world's population. We can not, should not, and cannot afford to "protect everybody in the world from themselves".
ME countries have been warring among themselves for THOUSANDS of years before America was little but a dream. What gives us the right or obligation to pontificate how they should live, what they should believe in, how their social structure should work... and to interfere in their doings?
Quote from Scataphagos:
CORRECTAMUNDO!
America should defend OUR shores and BUTT OUT!
WHAT OTHER COUNTRY IS CONSTANTLY INTERVENING IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS? (The ones doing so on their own initiative... not the ones who are just following America's lead.)
WHY SHOULD WE?
Not saying we should be complete isolationists... but good grief! No wonder half the world hates us.
Oh, and BTW... FUCK OBAMA, HILARY, PELOSI, REID, MAXINE WATERS, BOXER, FEINSTEIN, CHUCK SCHUMER, AND ALL OF THE REST OF THE ANTI-AMERICAN, POWER-HUNGRY, LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAPS!! (GWB, TOO! He was a SHIT president!)
![]()