LogicalReason
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I'm going to make a few comments and hopefully escape the thread without being pulled into the shouting taking place in here. :lol:
Now im not a very big bush supporter but I believe that he at least has the right idea. We should not wait for an attack, we should not wait for American lives to be lost before we act. Im not saying that we should go into every country that is remotely a threat and take them out. But if the choice comes for us to either stop an attack and be reviled for it by the rest of the world, or for us to wait until we are attacked and American innocents die before striking back. The obvious pick is to attack first.
We are already damned in the eyes of the world. Because of our wealth, our power, and yes our arrogance. No amount of acting weakly in order to not offend someone is going to change that. We are seen by many as infidels and murders. But I've actually traveled through parts of Europe and not as a tourist in the fancy American hotels but as just joe smoe and listened to what people said and how they felt about America (pays to be fluent in Italian and French). Although many oppose how we operate, many more don't. Its not the stark picture of everyone hating us that the media both left and right plays clips of each day... they want sensation and so they seek out the radicals.
Alright now I have to admit that was slightly off topic.. I started that pharagraph and completely lost what I was going to say... but I don't feel like deleting that because I think some of the people here need to hear it. Moving on to what I was going to say though.
1. 99% of Arabs don't hate us. Its a safe bet to reverse that number to 1% of Arabs hate us hate us. Quite a few dislike us but the number that hate us and want us all to die and burn for being infidels is relatively small.
2. Yes we should go after Syria, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. We won't though because it would be Bush's political suicide to go into another war. Now if one of them attacks us.. and even a hundred American's die on American soil. The political positions will reverse and we will go to war when the public starts baying for terrorist blood.
3. Actually we don't destroy innocent iraqi lives. Radical terrorist iraqis destroy innocent iraqi lives. You ask how are we any better than them. We are better than them simply because we are having this discussion on this forum and in many many other places around this country. When we take life we regret it, we worry about it, hell we even yell at each other about it. They dont.
Now im not a very big bush supporter but I believe that he at least has the right idea. We should not wait for an attack, we should not wait for American lives to be lost before we act. Im not saying that we should go into every country that is remotely a threat and take them out. But if the choice comes for us to either stop an attack and be reviled for it by the rest of the world, or for us to wait until we are attacked and American innocents die before striking back. The obvious pick is to attack first.
We are already damned in the eyes of the world. Because of our wealth, our power, and yes our arrogance. No amount of acting weakly in order to not offend someone is going to change that. We are seen by many as infidels and murders. But I've actually traveled through parts of Europe and not as a tourist in the fancy American hotels but as just joe smoe and listened to what people said and how they felt about America (pays to be fluent in Italian and French). Although many oppose how we operate, many more don't. Its not the stark picture of everyone hating us that the media both left and right plays clips of each day... they want sensation and so they seek out the radicals.
Alright now I have to admit that was slightly off topic.. I started that pharagraph and completely lost what I was going to say... but I don't feel like deleting that because I think some of the people here need to hear it. Moving on to what I was going to say though.
Davo said:Israeli-Palestinian Conflict...it's the reason 99% of all Arabs hate us- Didnt you know?
No we should go after countries that actually pose a threat such as Syria, Korea and Saudi Arabia.
Did you know : Syria - Biggest exporter of terrorist in the world topped only by Saudi Arabia? Did you know Korea is trying to make WMDs?
Muslim* - And ummmm If they destroy innocent american lives...and we destroy innocent iraqi lives....how are we better then them?
1. 99% of Arabs don't hate us. Its a safe bet to reverse that number to 1% of Arabs hate us hate us. Quite a few dislike us but the number that hate us and want us all to die and burn for being infidels is relatively small.
2. Yes we should go after Syria, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. We won't though because it would be Bush's political suicide to go into another war. Now if one of them attacks us.. and even a hundred American's die on American soil. The political positions will reverse and we will go to war when the public starts baying for terrorist blood.
3. Actually we don't destroy innocent iraqi lives. Radical terrorist iraqis destroy innocent iraqi lives. You ask how are we any better than them. We are better than them simply because we are having this discussion on this forum and in many many other places around this country. When we take life we regret it, we worry about it, hell we even yell at each other about it. They dont.