Posted on 01/10/2004 4:49:11 PM PST by Destro
Must have missed the news the day we were attacked by Iraq, Afghanistan, Columbia, Peru, Nicaragua, Grenada, Panama, Vietnam, Lebanon, Haiti, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.....
The last time this country was attacked by another country was just over 62 years ago. The last time I can think of another country giving sufficient reason for us to attack them was when N. Korea seized the Pueblo in '68 or when Cambodia seized the Mayaguez in '75 (or maybe Saudia Arabia's support of international terrorism taking place as we speak).
Face it, ours is a belligerent country and all limits on that belligerence were removed by the fall of the Soviet Union. Revel in the death and destruction our tax dollars are wreaking around the world... history says it'll be our turn one day & I don't think you'll be so happy when the chinese smart bombs come to your 'hood
I agree... If a national gov't knowingly & willingly hosts a terrorist organization that attacks us, a military response against that nation is justified. The Afghani host gov't is gone however. We've had a puppet gov't installed there for a couple of years. What's up with the continuing military occupation?
You can judge some our cold war military actions favorably by the context of the times... Korea, Vietnam - it looked at the time that communism was a near-irresistible force that needed to be resisted by whatever means necessary, to prevent the "domino effect" from engulfing the world. But Lebanon ('50s & '80s)? Dominican Republic? Yugoslavia (went in on the wrong side even)? Panama & Iraq were cases where we built up brutal military dictators and then brought 'em down. It even looks to me that we built up & enabled Bin Laden during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Terrorism, to me, doesn't warrant a military response in most cases, at least on a national scale. It's more of a crime, like murder. When a brother in the 'hood downtown comes out to the 'burbs & kills someone, you don't cluster-bomb the projects... you find out who did it & haul his ass off to jail (excuse the politically-incorrect analogy... I don't have a PC bone in my body)
You're right, I apologize - I responded to the first sentence of your post. Now that I have read it in it's entirety, I take back nothing I said & I also see two other things that I disagree with.
America is a democracy builder
Says who? I've never seen anything in the laws governing this nation that empowers the gov't to do that. I know the Founders of this nation were against meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. I know that we have no more legal right to dictate the form of gov't of a sovereign nation than they have dictating ours (dictate... dictator? See a pattern here? Bad!). Maybe what you're saying is "might makes right"? I disagree.
When Iraq continued to train, support and disburse terrorists around the world .. it was time to change their pattern
I haven't seen a shred of credible evidence that Iraq did anything of the sort. Also, considering that Iraq was under near-daily attack for a decade, how did all this training, supporting & dispersing take place under the noses of the US, French & Brits? In addition, secularism is one of the worst things a muslim can practice, in the eyes of a fanatic (typical) muslim. That makes the Husseins of the world mortal enemies of the Bin Ladens. I have a hard time seeing them cooperating on anything.
Come on... put another easy one over the plate. Spring training is coming up soon & I need the practice!
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