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Was the act of crashing hijacked commercial airliners into America's financial district and the Pentagon; A) A domestic military strike or B) A civil crime or maybe you need C) an inside job Answer the question or meet my "friends." |
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Man, there's nothing worse than a slacker fascist. Or maybe he's planning on pulling a Putin and sticking around past his constitutionally allotted time. |
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Now, what does this have to do with what we are talking about? |
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http://digg.com/politics/Bush_hires_...n_camps_in_USA http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...articleId=1897 |
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It's January 1st, not April 1st. But hey, who am I to laugh at Area 51, fake moon landings, grassy knolls, black helicopters, 9/11 truthers, Diebold, and REX84? For I'm a global warming denier. |
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But once again, what does this have to do with picking up people off the street, labeling them a terrorists and then being able to hold them indefinately? |
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Wars are fought against nations, not against ideologies.
If you don't have a specific nation that you are at war with, then you don't have a war, in my opinion. At the very least the U.S. should have declared war on Al Qaeda--if that's possible--rather than this nonsensical broad sweeping "war on terror." The so-called war isn't broad enough any way. There's been no move to check out American citizens (Timothy McVeigh types for example) that might be involved in terrorist activities. And I'm not arguing that there should be. . .just saying that the term "War on Terror" isn't even honest. And why is that no one ever talks about the Oklahoma City bombing any more? Why didn't we declare a "war on terror" after that? And remember the Unabomber? Wasn't he a terrorist also? Or do you have to be Muslim? |
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- Economically, it wasn't favorable to go to war with any other nation. There was not much to gain, but everything to lose, and the US citizens would have seen a sharp decline in standard of living very soon. It just wouldn't have make sense to battle every country on earth, and in the long-run not even possible. Russia may have suffered a lot during WWII, but it wasn't lying on the ground waiting for the last hit by any means. It was in no interest for the US to go on fighting anyone. - You should remember that the Marshallplan and all the support Germany received wasn't just a good deed by the Americans, but clearly aimed at building a shield against the Soviets and their territory, the later Warsaw Pact countries. That was one of the main priorities and main reasons why we received all that money and support. - The US government and military was smart enough to know that you couldn't use "the bomb" exhaustively because there would be nothing to be gained, but a whole world destroyed. And the wars in Korea or Vietnam wouldn't have looked that much different then as they did five respectively twenty years later. You would have had the human resources for such an undertaking. Your military isn't invincible, and wasn't back then. Pyrrhus should tell you something here. - The US had more important things to care about as being the next one to try, and fail, to be the imperial power of the earth. And eventually they got close to being something similar for quite some time. And, yes, good prevailed here and Truman sent the troops home. But this should remain the key sentence: Maybe a country can protect it's citizens and respect their rights at the same time. |
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9/11-- just a random attack by a group, totally unrelated to previous or subsequent attacks and with no underlying ideology. Well, if you believe that you should pooh-pooh the War on Terror I guess. Quote:
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![]() The point he's making is that it wasn't an attack by the Muslim faith. It wasn't an attack by the country of Afghanistan, or of Iran, or of Iraq, etc. These were not soldiers. These people were just in a group. |
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So declare war on the group then! That would make sense! The War on Terror is like declaring War on Fear (wait. . .isn't that essentially the same thing?) or War on Hate or yes, a War on Poverty or a War on Drugs. . .all nonsense. |
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I understand your point and you are correct, radical Islam can't be bombed, isolated, embargoed or entered into treaty with. It is, to be sure, a new type of War -- but a war nevertheless. And we are still in the process of discovering the most effective ways to win it. There are many ways to win a war of ideology. Do you have to be Muslim? As tragic as OKC was, when terrorists start shouting "McVeigh" as they martyr themselves in place of "Allah" then we can include it in the 21st Century War on Terror, otherwise it truly is an individual act of domestic violence, like Columbine, Virginia Tech and past presidential assassinations have been. |
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Fascism was in power in Italy, Spain and Portugal as well, and was quickly introduced by the Vichy government in France either.
The Allies didn't fight Fascism, but the Great-German, Italian and Japanese armies. (ETA: Well, they fought against fascism, but the opponents were defined more clearly.) These have been wars against specific nations. A war against the Fascist ideology what have meant that they went after those who held Fascist views. And I don't think that's comparable to the situation the US is currently in, where you don't have a clearly defined enemy. The Thirty Years War was a war between the religions, but also about gaining resources, and a war of the monarchical powers in Europe, but again, there have been two clearly defined enemies, and it's still been a war fought out by the militaries of the nations involved. That's both much easier to fight than a "war on terror", where you have so many factions and so many enemies you are in fact fighting a hydra. And torturing and detaining inhumanely and stooping to the level of your enemy is only recruiting more and more enemies to fight. |
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Very true, nobody (including GWB) said it would be easy or quick. It may take generations. Quote:
But let's say for a moment that Guantanamo Bay is doing more harm than good and must go. So we close it and give all current detainees a plane ticket to Berlin and 50,000 Euros. You cool with that? |
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