Anytime we hear about some injustice we do care, but because the residence of a certan old world continent would whine about it being none of our business we do nothing.
We let Afghanistan go to hell for the last five-ten years because setting up a real government wasn't our business, even though our involvement in the region demanded we clean it up,
Oh no I'm sure the factions will come together, we don't need to help,
Yes we ****ed that one up, why because we didn't want people *****ing at us for imperialising,
what would have happened if we had stayed in the reagon, if we set up a democratic government, and tried to get the reagon settled,
We would have been accused of doing what the USSR had just done, or that we were only there to get and oil pipeline, or spreading our evil-chirstian-jew-capitalistic evilness
So instead of doing what we are doing now
Setting up a halfway decent government
We let them go to hell,
Even then we did nothing why because
Who are we to impose our sense of morality on these people?
Well who the **** were the taliban, well they were some of the people we armed to get rid of the USSR, but they were from the reagon so somehow they were allowed to subjugate the country without condemnation,
So rather than trying to get rid of them we said OK everyone else says not to get rid of them so I Gus we should try to deal with them, yes that's what the Europeans want and they all sound so smart, yes lets give it a try...
Eventually we had to do it our way, and wow look at that, it worked, in a month!!!!
Same thing in Yugoslavia, people getting killed, we see this, are outraged want to do something, Europe says no (well they do have more of a right here seeing as this was in Europe, but), impose sanctions, apply political pressure, just what ever you do don't actually go in and physically stop it. Well after a few years situation goes from worse to crimes against humanity, and eventually we somehow convince you all, yes we must go in and do something,
wam! bam! Two months later, situation resolved
There may still be problems there but I haven't heard anything, it's certainly better than it was before the strikes
I was too young to remember any of the other major military strike againced people we didn't like as are most likely you
The reason we didn't like communism is because they sent tanks after people in there own country asking for change, they shot people trying to leave, and because they had nukes pointing at us (we probably have that last one in common with them)
The idea of communism we didn't like because from what we saw of it's implementation it
A) Didn't work
B) Removed all rights from its citizens
So is it a good idea to let Sadam stay there and continue his rain, building weapons he will use on people, we have done it you're way for the last ten years, is it anywhere near resolving this situation, or has it just allowed him to rebuild his stash,
Is it our business if he kills hundreds, thousands, millions
Was it our business when Germany was laying waist to Europe?
Why must we always wait until these things get to such an uncontrollable situation
It is our business because we are at war with terrorism
terrorism- the act of using a non-national militant force to intentionally kill civilians for the propose of gaining political leverage through fear
And Sadam does support it,
He doesn't need to support Al Qeda, just giving cash to suicide bombers' families is enough, this is also why we are pissed at Saudi Arabia whom we are slowly realizing are not our friends,
We need to cut oil consumption, we need to get fuel cell cars, and nuclear powerplants, we need to do it now, not just because of the Arab oil thing but also for the environment. Why the hell don't we have this stuff!! (I know, I know, evil corporations...)
I will write a letter to my congressperson
...Iraq
We need to do to Iraq what we are doing to Afghanistan
