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Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
Should never have gone there in the first place. There were other ways to go after Al Qaeda and those ways should have been exhausted before any invasion of another country. That's why we are are there 9 years later fighting who exactly?

Likewise, I don't hate you. We usually oppose each other on issues such as this, but I see no harm in pointing out the similarities in how supposedly superior cultures are allowed to steal the land of indigenous populations. Or even bomb others without due cause.
#1 NO, we should have just stayed there in the 1980's and all this Al Queda, Taliban bullshit would have been avoided had we just given the Afghani people a hand in building their country after they got rid of the Soviets.

#2 Once again my issue with the way you are viewing this is that you judge the PAST by the morals and values we have TODAY. That is a flawed logic because the way we look at things today is incredibly different than the reality of life in the past. Now if we're talking recent past then there may be a little room for you to look at those events the way you're already looking at things.
1 - That might have been a good idea.

2 - I still have to disagree with you. I think that no matter what period you are living in, killing people and stealing their land is always going to be regarded as wrong. Just because it is me stealing the land that in no way justifies that kind of action. It was wrong period. And the fact that we are allowing Israel to do the very same thing today (with less bloodshed) fills me with complete revulsion.