Donny_Brasco Donny_Brasco:
I wonder how many innocent Afghanis feel the same way you and I do because a Russian or an American or a Canadian killed one of their family members, by accident or maybe because he was an enemy.
War is hell. It has unfortunate consequences, but you know as well as I do, there will never, ever, be a world completely without war. And when a country harbour asshats who killed Canadians and Americans, sorry, we are not going to take that laying down.
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Do you think they would have the same feeling of revenge that courses through my veins when I think of 9-11?
Probably. Do you think Germans who had their fathers killed in the war felt the same way as americans and canadians?
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Do you think that killing more of them will bring back the people we lost in 9-11?
Nice anti-war rhetoric. It may not bring them back, but perhaps we may be able to stop taliban activities for a while, and turn that country around.
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Are we killing the right people, and if we are will that make us safer?
Yes.
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Or are we killing people (the right ones or not) and actually making things worse?
Perhaps in the immediate future, but long term it is for the best.
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Do you think little Johnny Afghan who has no connection to these Muslim extremists likes having us in his country, shooting at people and blowing up shit?
Do you think little Jimmy from down the street feels real nice about not growing up without a mommy or daddy? Sorry, I will be labeled a racist, bigot, asshole, whatever. But I care more about Little Jimmy more.
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Or maybe we are proving these extremists right? You know they say we do not care about the rest of the world and we will exploit them as much as we can as often as we can. Maybe this is what they want us to do; send our troops in and start killing people. Then we have proved them right.
What? Sorry that didn't make too much sense. How in hell are we exploiting them? They fucking attacked the U.S. Is that not exploitation?
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Maybe the course of action should be "no, we will not engage you, we will show your own people that we will not be drawn into conflict. We will stand on the high moral ground and invite their people to join us".
AKA, No we will not stand up to you, we will turn a blind eye and appease the fuck out of you. Here is my country.
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Would make Osama and his buddies look pretty stupid standing in the desert all alone with no one to follow them.
And since we are there, all taliban officials are hiding in caves living off rats. They would always have survivors, they would make us out to be weak and unprotected, nice big targets.
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But of course there is no money in peace.
hmmm, I thought you were going to go a whole post without mentioning money or race. Guess not.