Afghanistan Update

[Rocket Queen]

We usually don't start wars.

[DrRedFox]

Yeah I know Obama was an idiot for calling a no fly zone on Libya.

Every major country in the world has done something horrible to add.

[nemo]

We usually don't start wars. Once someone attacks us and we declare war its dumb how instead of trying to be better than them we cause more destruction. What I just typed pretty goes with how Japan attacked us on December 7th. Instead of being the better nation, the US made the dumb mistake of nuking Hiroshima. Lets now look at 9/11. We should've declared war on Saudi Arabia since most of the hijackers were from their.

How do you think the war in Afghanistan started?  Or the war in Iraq?  Or what's happening in Libya?  Or, well, how far back do you want me to go?  Perhaps you could tell me the last time another country declared war on America and it was necessary to fight out of self defence?

I was trying to say that America weren't the worse of two evils in conflict, you seem to be going out of your way to show me that they are.

[mooney]

I saw these pics yesterday i think. i think my lack of shock or surprise - and probably many others' too - is quite telling.

Speaking of Afghanistan, Mark Curtis has done a brilliant document on it for War on Want here (opens as a kind of internet PDF thing):

http://markcurtis.info/  (for some reason i cant atm link directly to it but in this page, go to the heading "the great game..." (second article down) and click the "new report for war on want".

We usually don't start wars. Once someone attacks us and we declare war its dumb how instead of trying to be better than them we cause more destruction. What I just typed pretty goes with how Japan attacked us on December 7th. Instead of being the better nation, the US made the dumb mistake of nuking Hiroshima. Lets now look at 9/11. We should've declared war on Saudi Arabia since most of the hijackers were from their.

When did your history of your own country begin exactly? 2 hours ago? Your opening line is a tremendous piece of work. Truly outstanding.

Yeah I know Obama was an idiot for calling a no fly zone on Libya.

Every major country in the world has done something horrible to add.

They asked for a no flly zone. Nothing more. And so what is other countries do bad things? You're not responsible for their actions, just your own. Pointing the finger is no justification at all for extreme and continuous acts of violence (mostly against poor, impoverished countries), which is a UK and US specialty.

[mooney]

i know right.

do you actually have anything to say or not?

[polar]

do you actually have anything to say or not?

mooney if you're looking for an argument, you're welcome to pick up the thread about capitalism.  you kinda bugged out

[mooney]

mooney if you're looking for an argument, you're welcome to pick up the thread about capitalism.  you kinda bugged out

well no one seemed to budge from their positions, it kinda died a death. Plus i was attempting to write an essay at the time - which i've still to do. It's also 1.47am right now. I'll try and give those Friedman videos a watch at some point.

[nemo]

If anyone's wondering I removed a few posts that were just people writing 2 word insults and responses to them back and forth because they were kinda getting in the way of the discussion.  Hence mooney did not actually invent a quote from someone else.

[2NaFish]

As the world's first suspected triple agent, I do at times wonder who he's actually working for...

We usually don't start wars.

Do you really believe that?