Originally posted by Becker44
Originally posted by jprophet420
I guess the warmmongers had enough followers to do it.
How did they get that support again?
Ahh yes, thousands of deaths. You may also want to look at your leader ship structure, and also your personal belief system. With over a million
people dead and counting, you must be super pissed.
The support for the war on terrorism was approved and funded by the house and then the senate. Both houses were democratic majorities. This is usually
a little tid-bit the left likes to omit.
War is a terrible and ugly thing. I must remind you though, the only reason you're typing away on your comp is a direct result of war.
Actually, what you just said is what is called in debate tactics a "logical fallacy". Where the individual lives, how his family got here, or even
what would have happened if the colonials had not gone to war would need to all be factored in to make that statement true.
Did Australia rise up against England and fight them off their soil? And yet, they all have Internet access, too.
We don't know that we're all alive because of war because we never got the chance to see what would have happened any other way.
It's all supposition.
I'm assuming you are American when I state that your independence and freedom to regurcitate bullet points comes to you by way of
wars.
Perhaps you shouldn't?
The U.S. broke free from England by taking up arms. Not talking about it. Remember?
Again, we don't know what would have happened had we gone Canada's route with England. We also don't know what would happen if we used diplomacy
correctly throughout history because we always use it too little, too late to be effective. We're passive aggressive warmongers.
The liberation and freedom brought to 50 million fellow humans seems to be a moot point to a person with your thought process.
I don't think the colonies had 50 million people in them. If you are speaking of Iraq we tore down a dictator who used brutality to keep all the
various factions in check. How many have died since we took over? Actually, I won't ask you that because we play with the numbers.
And finally, all the europeans with short term memory should also realize their freedoms and liberties have also been brought about by the
ugliness of wars.
What? They almost
lost their freedom because of war, some did lose it, and it was regained because of war, and that
is the point. War begats war.
If you want to talk WWII then let's be fair and also talk the Treaty of Versailles. It is no surprise given what happened during WWI and then what
Europe imposed on Germany rather than use Wilson's 14 points.
So thanks for tossing up the softball it was easy to hit.
You may have hit it back, but I think your ball went foul.
Becker
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