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Originally posted by Probono
If Bush has been so wonderful protecting us why is Bin Laden still able to broadcast?
More important listen to the message, something Americans don't seem to get. We are programmed in school to believe we are such a great country. We are the economic imperialists of the world. We are not territory grabbers, we stopped that after Cuba and the Phillipines. We economic imperialists try to control puppet goverments to our advantage while raping the resources of nations.
We need to pratice some of what we preach and leave other nations to their own nation building and let them create the institutions they want.
Invading Iraq was a costly diversion that will not soon end. We gave Bin Laden everything he had hoped to get and more. The muslim world is now untied against the US.
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There is a lot of truth you said here, but you ended up with the wrong point of view.
America is a great country, and I honestly believe in my heart that we try to do what is right. Look at Japan and Germany for examples - You cannot say they are puppet goverments. We helped them to create a government, and then set them loose. But this is not a quick process - The US military remained in Japan for six years, and much longer for Germany. And I'm sure ten years from now Iraq will be a great country standing on it's own.
The entire Muslim world is united against the US. They blame everything on the US. But who's fault is it? Who carved up the Middle East, creating Jordan and Isreal? Wasn't it.... England and - surprise - the French who creaded Trans Jordan and Isreal? Is it the fault of the US that the Jews returned to the Middle East in 1880 reaching a peak shortly after WWII?
The United States could pull out of the Middle East today, and it wouldn't change a thing. They would continue to fight and kill each other and the land would be ruled by warlords that terrorize each other and their population. And they would continue to blame us for their problems.
We attacked a country - Iraq - because of what they did to Kuwait. Funny how the muslim world take up arms when one muslim country attacked and slautered another?