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Originally posted by bhutocracy
taking Saddam out will be a very difficult but hopefully a good thing.. he is the only thing stopping an islamic revolution in Iraq though.. when he's gone the puppet that the US installs probably won't be able to control religious fervour... we may end up with another saudi arabia - where most of the s/11 hijackers came from but a US controlled government.
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That's why UN action mainly targetted at human rights is preferable to US action targetted mainly at oil money, with a small bit of "war on terror".
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Originally posted by bhutocracy
also might i suggest that you refrain from telling americans "someone should nuke america".. how can that possibly add anything to the debate? what have the people of america done? nothing. America is a great country.. it's just that some of their foreign policy is horrible.. Most countrys' foreign policy has very, very bad points just that because america is bigger people see more of it.. Australia, England etc etc are just as bad.. your average person doesn't know what is being done in their name overseas. you should be just as critical of your own country.
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I said that merely to illustrate a point. Many americans seem to spend extensive amounts of time saying all countries not doing what they consider best should be nuked, flattened, etc. They never seem to consider that the people living in those countries are people just like them, and feel the same way as them about their country getting nuked, flattened, etc.
However, to say america is a great country seems a bit unjust. It's the richest country in the world, yet 13% of the people in the US are living in poverty. It has 5% of the world's population, yet produces 25% of the world's pollution. It is one of the few countries in the world that can sentence people to death for crimes committed when they were minors. It has a murder rate approx. 5 times as high as that of countries like the Netherlands and Japan. It threatened third world countries with severe economical sanctions if these countries were to ignore American farmaceutical companies' patents on AIDS-medicines because those companies were asking prices for those medicines that made it impossible for the people in those countries to buy them. And the list goes on...
I myself am very critical of my country's actions, however, the same can not be said about many americans.