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R-Tard
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 612
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Steve since the US is the only super power they have a responsibility to the world community to defend the rights adn freedoms of people who are unable to do it for themselves.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: At the end of the longest line
Age: 43
Posts: 7,451
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I gotta disagree with you Rob. The only responsibility of any given government is to ensure the happiness and safety of it's own people. Again, Poli Sci 101. Any consideratiom towards those who they perceive as allies is secondary. We have no responsibility to protect anyone else in the world, period. That aspect is doubly important when that protection comes at our own risk (which defending Israel certainly would). Besides, when was the last time Israel did anything for us? I'll tell you when. Never. We throw billions and billions of dollars at them in "loans" that we never expect to be repaid. We arm them with tanks and helicopter gunships so they can take out Palestinian kids who throw rocks at tanks. We owe them NOTHING but are willing to sacrifice ourselves for their security. Fuck that. If there were more muslims than jews in this country you can bet your ass we'd be standing up for Iran and saying "fuck Israel".
It's high time we learned that we can't protect everyone no matter how much we'd like to. We learned this in Vietnam, Korea, and the first gulf war. The first two were fought against the scourge of communism. Last I checked Korea and Vietnam had split and Red China was doing just fine with communism. Now we're fighting a war against islam (say we're not all you like...you're either lying to yourself or to others). The sad truth is that the things we fight against prevail long after we're gone. It's the way of the world. People get used to certain things and new ideas tend to scare people. Differences of opinions aside, I think we can all agree it's not the best idea to piss of the muslim world any more than we absolutely have to at this point. We need their support, not their contempt. If you thought they were crazy before, just see what a few years of unwanted occupation does to them.
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