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Well if military force won't stop the cultural differences won't stop fighting in a given country, what the hell are we doing in Iraq? Iraq is on the brink of civil war because of cultural differences between Shiites, Sunnis, etc. That's mainly thanks to a bunch of crusty old European dudes who divided up the Ottoman empire after the first world war and created countries regardless of cultural conflicts. In fact I'd go so far as to say that cultural conflicts drive close to if not more than 90% of all wars. So if military action doesn't answer cultural conflicts, what was the point of all of these wars?

And yeah...I did say that America needs to protect itself and it's citizens. I also said that if we were REALLY as righteous as we said we were, we'd either fight for freedom for everyone or at least own up to the fact that we only fight for them when it suits our interests. I really don't care which way we go...as long as we're honest about it.