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Originally Posted by BMW X5
agree however if we pull out or if we dont kill them they will kill us regardless, if we were to pull out our military from all the areas we have them in now, and were to stop interfering in any world issues then sorry to say the world would fall apart and everyone would kill themselves and we wouldnt be spared either. Not to say that we keep the world together but just like police keep order it seems that we have taken on that role whether voluntarily or not. look at Thailand, we werent there and whoops the country is taken over from a "democracy" to a current marshal rule while the prime minister is in NYC at the UN of all places. Education goes a long way and we dont go and kill civilians purposefully we go for insurgents or whatever you want to call them. the fact that they hide amongst and put in danger the lives of civilians is really no ones fault. if civilians know that they will be killed for harboring these pricks and they still do it then they clearly dont care. the anti-US sentiment will not go down regardless of what we do. sort of like the palestinians will not leave the Israelis alone no matter what they do unless they leave the country and thats an impossible and unlikely scenario and if hypothetically Israelis were to leave then they would find trouble elsewhere just like us here in the US
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I think if we are consistant with our policies and support democracy worldwide, then world opinion of us will change. You forget that back in the 1960s, we were loved in all parts of the world. The change in world opinion was due to our policies over the last 40 years. Unfortunately, that cannot be repaired overnight. It will take time. But the sooner we start, the sooner we will see results.
This is the sort of stuff our leaders need to stop doing:
With Kazakh's Visit, Bush Priorities Clash
Because when they do that, it makes it obvious that they really do not care about democracy and human rights, and they just use those issues as an excuse to achieve other objectives when they can.
09-20-2006, 03:06 PM
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