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Old 10-14-2001, 04:18 PM   #8
Silverquick
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Join Date: October 6, 2001
Posts: 45

That would depend Azure,

Some of those people you name I question as well about whether they truly do care about the United States. Because I find that those that spout the "USA is bad" are usually just as ignorant of what happened as those "blind patriots".

Its one thing to bring up concerns, its another to litterally be totally against your country. The United States Is not necessarily clean, but many of the decisions the United States has made have been dictated to it.

You should know by now the United States isnt a Proactive country, its a reactive one. The majority of the decisions it makes are based on the hand that has been dealt to it.

Over the Last few Days I have heard the standard anti-US lingo from the Muslim side. Things like....

Example: The USA is killing millions of Iraqi children and dont care!

This of course ignores the fact that the reason Iraqi children are dying is because a certain man named Saddam Hussien loves nuclear/chemical/biological weapons and decided to overrun an ally of the United States called Kuwait. After the Gulf war an entire coalition including those muslim nations decided the fate of Iraq.
Thus the Muslim nations are equally responsible, but its more convenient to just blame the United States.
It also Ignores the fact that they have opened those sanctions to allow him to sell oil for Humanitarian aid... but the money all went to Hussien instead of to his people.

Example: You supported Iraq in its war against Iran when Saddam was on the side of the United States. See how terrible your country is for supporting evil dictators?

Problem with this one is that at the time we were doing that Iran was holding a load of US Hostiges from the US embassy and wouldnt give them up. The USA either had to invade Iran itself to get its people back... or back someone involved in a war with Iran and hope he (Saddam) won.

Example: You Supported the Taleban so this is your fault for them in Afghanistan.

Ummm no, the United States supported the Mujahadin who did indeed throw Russia out of the country who had invaded with the purpose of annexing it. The current Taleban are a small fragment of the former Mujahadin that later were trained and sponsored by Pakistan in the 1990s. The United States did not create the Taleban.

Example: War is bad why are you killing innocent Afghanis, that is just as bad as the terrorists.

Unfortunately the Problem is bin Laudin is leaving us little choice. The terrorist attacks from him are coming anyway regardless of what we do. The American civilian bodies will continue to pile up here in the United States until bin Laudin and Al'Qaida are eliminated.

The Taleban will not give him up, they really are very interwoven with him and his Al'Qaida. It should be no surprise that they wouldnt give him up when asked. Bill Clinton asked them to turn him over during his terms of office. He had proof positive that Bin Laudin was involved in the Trade center and the embassy bombings via intercepted cell phone calls.

This means that the United States will have to take out the Taleban. To do that means some Afghani civilians will die.

But then again... its either that OR.... the dead American civilians continue to pile up here in America.

If this creates more terrorists?
Well there is already one with a large network who will not stop as is.
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