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You would be less fearful if we just let the fundimentalist Islamic radicals just take over the ME?
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Not to use the military option doesn't mean that you let them take over or do nothing at all.
hm. They were created by..? They get their weapons from...? We fight them with...? And they are still in Afghanistan and more were created in Iraq because of the invasion. That shows that our strategy is wrong.
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YOu would have been less fearful has we let the former Soviet Union take over Europe and in the end the UK? You would be less fearful had we just let NK with the aid of the Chinese take over SK?
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There is always an alternative to the military option.
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It would have been better had we not?
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It would have been better. But this is not the right discussion to argue about historical moments.
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And ever since we did all the opportunities to use them again and we didn't. In fact the US could have pretty much taken over the world but we didn't.
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I agree.
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When has the US ever not supported the liberty and freedom of people and their right to form their own representitive government?
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Honestly? Iran 1953, Iran 1979, Allende - Chile etc. etc.
Hussein - Iraq, war in the gulf, Taliban/Mujahideen - Afghanistan, Pakistan - Musharraf, Saudi Arabia.
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When was the goal for us to take over another country and make it a part of the US rather than removing a tyranical dictatorial ruler and freeing the people of that country?
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It is the same as it was with the Shah in Iran: It is about ("modern")imperialism. In fact: oil.
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I guess we should never have gone to war Europe and should have let Hitler just have it.
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There were men who let Hitler grow and those were anticommunists. To the situation in the Third Reich: It was too late. But there were some situations managed successful by civilians without violence.
And the Third Reich was build on? Militarism.