"First Class" Idiots
CNN.com - Protesters 'boarded U.S. plane' - Aug 8, 2006
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You can't be running around saying "Don't do that," or "Doing that is wrong," unless you come up with a solution.
What, exactly, should Israel do? Let Hezbollah be, so they can accumulate MORE rockets and prisoners? No, that's bullshit. So if you don't want Israel in Lebanon attacking (not Lebanese military but) Hezbollah militants, then SUGGEST A SOLUTION instead of whining or doing stupid-ass shit like forcing your way on a plane to look for US weapons bound for Israel. Oh, the stupidity!
And I'm going to rant about Iraq now. If there was even the CHANCE of WMDs in Iraq, should we have sat blithely by and let Saddam have his way with ... well, even the Arab countries in the region? He has a history of lying through his teeth, for crying out loud. The biggest mistake I can see out of all this is basing a major assault off of some faulty Italian intelligence (they did find WMDs, by the way, but they were significantly degraded, NOT destroyed as promised I should note).
Now that we're in there, we DO owe it to the Iraqi people to be able to live a fulfilling life without the threat of mass kidnappings and car bombings. Pulling our troops out right now (or even in the near future) is STUPID. What's going to fill that power vacuum? People are reeling over the deaths of 2 Marines here, 4 soldiers there...it's nothing compared to the sacrifices given in World War 2 (for example). No, I don't like the fact we have young men and women dying in a strange and foreign land (where many of the population there would rather we be gone), but we're in there now; so support them and think about the bigger picture for a change.
I have no doubt that our administration (both Bushes and even Clinton to some degree...at least in recent times) is a wellspring of idiocy when it comes to foreign policy. But, depending on the angle you look at it, there is some method to the madness that isn't solely based off of some ideals of imperialism. Look at WHO it was we deposed and WHAT they did, and you tell me we're doing the wrong thing.
People who balk at the US interfering in such regions as the Middle East seem to forget what the ideology of radical Muslims is: to establish a regional--if not global--caliphate (Sounds almost like Hitler's vision for the Third Reich covering the whole globe, does it not???). That means YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Protester, would become a second-class citizen (if you didn't convert to Islam) and NOT have the ability to even wander the streets with signs, chanting slogans, let alone do anything else.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You can't be running around saying "Don't do that," or "Doing that is wrong," unless you come up with a solution.
What, exactly, should Israel do? Let Hezbollah be, so they can accumulate MORE rockets and prisoners? No, that's bullshit. So if you don't want Israel in Lebanon attacking (not Lebanese military but) Hezbollah militants, then SUGGEST A SOLUTION instead of whining or doing stupid-ass shit like forcing your way on a plane to look for US weapons bound for Israel. Oh, the stupidity!
And I'm going to rant about Iraq now. If there was even the CHANCE of WMDs in Iraq, should we have sat blithely by and let Saddam have his way with ... well, even the Arab countries in the region? He has a history of lying through his teeth, for crying out loud. The biggest mistake I can see out of all this is basing a major assault off of some faulty Italian intelligence (they did find WMDs, by the way, but they were significantly degraded, NOT destroyed as promised I should note).
Now that we're in there, we DO owe it to the Iraqi people to be able to live a fulfilling life without the threat of mass kidnappings and car bombings. Pulling our troops out right now (or even in the near future) is STUPID. What's going to fill that power vacuum? People are reeling over the deaths of 2 Marines here, 4 soldiers there...it's nothing compared to the sacrifices given in World War 2 (for example). No, I don't like the fact we have young men and women dying in a strange and foreign land (where many of the population there would rather we be gone), but we're in there now; so support them and think about the bigger picture for a change.
I have no doubt that our administration (both Bushes and even Clinton to some degree...at least in recent times) is a wellspring of idiocy when it comes to foreign policy. But, depending on the angle you look at it, there is some method to the madness that isn't solely based off of some ideals of imperialism. Look at WHO it was we deposed and WHAT they did, and you tell me we're doing the wrong thing.
People who balk at the US interfering in such regions as the Middle East seem to forget what the ideology of radical Muslims is: to establish a regional--if not global--caliphate (Sounds almost like Hitler's vision for the Third Reich covering the whole globe, does it not???). That means YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Protester, would become a second-class citizen (if you didn't convert to Islam) and NOT have the ability to even wander the streets with signs, chanting slogans, let alone do anything else.
posted by xanadian at 11:30 AM
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