Originally posted by poedxsoldiervet
reply to post by Frankidealist35
What international law did we violate? THere was a UN resolution allwoing Saddam to be toppled, And the Taliban would not give up Bin Laden so he attacked us.... and were supposed to sit back and take it/? get a life
I'm not talking just about Bin Laden. This goes way back before 9-11. I recommend you read about our military interventions throughout history. I've gotten over ranting and raving about Iraq being an imperial war. I've read about our true history... and it looks like we've done more harm than good. IT wouldn't be so bad if we were only doing it for humanitarian reasons or to fight the communists but the real reasons for fighting the wars are really far more sinister than we can imagine.
Originally posted by jam321
reply to post by Frankidealist35
I find it strange that you come up with all of these questions, claim not to be anti-american because you are a US citizen, but have yet to make an attempt to answer your own questions.
You ask so many questions that it would be impossible to have a reasonable debate covering every single one in one thread. Each question is pretty much a thread itself.
How do you view these questions you ask?
Ah. Well that's simple. I think that we should solve our problems at home first. My principle is that we should intervene less in the affairs of others. That's what our founding fathers would have wanted. I mean I understand that we did some bad stuff during the cold war but my opinion on this matter is that it wouldn't be so bad if it were just that we were fighting the communists... but what really woke me up to how much we've interfered with the affairs of others, and, our imperialist attitudes was studying the interventions we've made in Latin America a bit. (www.zompist.com...). That's what really opened my eyes up. So my view is simply that we should work to solve our problems at home here first before we do it abroad.
Originally posted by dragonridr
reply to post by Frankidealist35
If you think were the only country that meddles in other nations affairs your sadly mistaken.Just about every country in the world has spies and will try to manipulate other nations.So there is no right to do this only accepted protocol if your not worried about what other countries are doing guaranteed your being manipulated by someone.
There is no doubt that other countries do it too. It's just that the US does it a lot more than other countries. It's also that we typically tend to form pacts with other countries and we also help them do it. I think this whole idea of empire building via the Un and the US through peace keeping missions should be abandoned. Mankind as a whole needs to be far less aggressive. It will end up being our undoing if we don't (if we don't act less aggressively towards each other).
