tomsnowman123
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blackheart said:Freeing people from oppression is a good start, unless you don't want that.
We have plenty of problems here in the US that need to be faced. War should never be a priority, period.
blackheart said:Freeing people from oppression is a good start, unless you don't want that.
Moderator Action: Even with your repeated warnings and with bans, you still continue to advocate killing. Only by the grace of all the moderators and Thunderfall may we consider you to return anytime soon, if at all.Inqvisitor said:If they stop invading and return home. But otherwise they are enemy combatants, and a defensive war is a just war...
tomsnowman123 said:We have plenty of problems here in the US that need to be faced. War should never be a priority, period.
BasketCase said:Another question for Zulu and company--a question I've never heard anyone ask before:
Is it okay to allow an oppressive regime such as the Taliban to use its nation's oil revenues for whatever ends it pleases? (For the Taliban, that would be enforcing its wide array of extremely oppressive religious laws).
It's very possible that oil was a primary motivation for the invasion of Afghanistan. Was taking that money out of the hands of the Taliban a good thing, or a bad thing?
allhailIndia said:I fail to see the 'oil' argument since there is hardly any in Afghanistan and to believe that some vague imaginary pipeline across one of the most unstable and ungovernable parts of the world was the reason for invading, is simply a bad case of spending too much time on internet discussion fora such as this.
Xenocrates said:You criticize the Taliban and then admit that Afghanistan is 'ungovernable'.
And you deny that an oil pipeline is a sufficient reason to go to war. Maybe for you and me it is, but since the OP proved that the attack on Afghanistan was underway before 9/11, so that removes the other possible alternative.
allhailIndia said:ungovernable by outsiders....if you know ANYTHING about the history of Afghanistan....
You kiddin'? It's all over the place. People are constantly mentioning "should we invade?" "should we drop nukes?" Here's a tiny example:Fox Mccloud said:Strange. I haven't seen any "invade Iran" propaganda, and I sometimes watch Fox News.![]()
It's NOT our duty. I DON'T want the US involved in perpetual war.Cheezy the Wiz said:It is our duty to free the opressed citzens under autoritarian regimes from their rule, and to establish a system of free elections and democratic rule. I'm sorry you don't feel the oblgation to help someone other than yourself
Cheezy the Wiz said:It is our duty to free the opressed citzens under autoritarian regimes from their rule, and to establish a system of free elections and democratic rule. I'm sorry you don't feel the oblgation to help someone other than yourself
It is our duty to free the opressed citzens under autoritarian regimes from their rule, and to establish a system of free elections and democratic rule. I'm sorry you don't feel the oblgation to help someone other than yourself
usarmy18 said:If the US really wants oil so bad, all they have to do is drill for it off most of our coastline, not fruitlessly spend billions of dollars on trying to stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan in the hope of sometime in the future cashing in on oil wealth.