Reply #67: No, I'm dead serious. [View All]

I really don't care who the hell started the war(which it is between cultures...global domination/secular people). I would have started the end to the war by making a peace treaty. Would they have come? I dunno. But you can only do as good as you try to be. And when you only look at the military option, all you get is an endless war.

Do you think this war on terrorism will ever end with a military victory?

Israel can fight their own wars. So can the Ukraine, Vietnam, Koreas, Liberia, Colombia and so forth. We're not the world saviours. The UN was designed to be the world saviours. If there is a problem with the world(ethnic clensing for example)...America will be one nation in a chorus of other nations to make the world a better place. America is not a nation to dictate who the ruler of Iraq is or any other nation for that matter.

It was Patrick Henry who got up in 1775 and said, "give me liberty or give me death"...his stance, with others, lead to our independence and our half-decent society we live in today. There are a lot nations that could use regime change. And it is the people of those nations to fight for their rights, not us.

Israel is the problem with the middle east. because of them, we have put thousands of troops in the region, all for their independence. This isn't our war to fight. I'd tell the terrorists we're sorry(I would have told them this before 9/11 and taken the troops out but this topic is about after 9/11 so I'll pretend I'd let something like this happen...the war going on)...for fighting the war against their culture, within their own boundaries.

Is this funny? Not really. This is serious stuff that has given America a bad rap in the world, as well as a ballooned pentagon budget, and a war where 9/11 was just one battle.

I can respect people's rights to govern their own lands. I'd say the taleban can control their country with no interference from me, and I can govern my country with no interference from them and we shall live in peace.

Every administration since FDR hasn't respected any nations rights to govern themselves. I'd give those rights back to the those people as long as they aren't starting international wars(pre-emptive strikes). Those who do start a pre-emptive strike(CoughAmericacough)...I'd deal with through the UN.

Will people suffer under these regimes? Sure they will, but it is their lack of will to fight for a better country for themselves. They get what they deserve. If a life with a dictator as their leader makes them happy, then who are we be to intervene?

Patrick Henry was a great man. He was right on this issue as were our forefathers who have given us the constitutional right to create our own government shall this one fail. We'd have to defend it ourselves...costing many lives...but damn it, any other action simply states that we're happy with our current administration.

So I'm
Pro civil war.
Anti pre-emptive international war.
Pro UN war combatting pre-emptive international war.
And saddened a resolution wasn't given to attack America for its pre-emptive war on Iraq.

Anti-American? Maybe...but the war on Iraq was wrong, did violate Article II of the UN charter, wasn't given the go ahead by the UN, and therefore was ILLEGAL.

We were no different than Adolf Hitler. And you wonder why the world hates us? We promote war and not peace.

my reaching out to the terrorists leaders would be a bridge to ease our differences and promote peace within our cultures.