War On Terror

smgismyqueenjpg said:
What should we do about it?
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What should we do about the war on terror? Feel pretty despondent about it, I suppose. The amount of deaths globally since 9/11 is an atrocity. The number of women, children and other innocents bombed in Afghanistan is a smear on humanity. Same goes for all the soldiers who have died in service, and the veterans who return home with PTSD and lifelong injuries, who have no help and even end up homeless due to medical bills.

What's happening now is symptomatic of what and the US, UK and other European countries have inflicted on middle eastern countries for decades.
 
GwenRaiden said:
What should we do about the war on terror? Feel pretty despondent about it, I suppose. The amount of deaths globally since 9/11 is an atrocity. The number of women, children and other innocents bombed in Afghanistan is a smear on humanity. Same goes for all the soldiers who have died in service, and the veterans who return home with PTSD and lifelong injuries, who have no help and even end up homeless due to medical bills.

What's happening now is symptomatic of what and the US, UK and other European countries have inflicted on middle eastern countries for decades.
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Oh, God. This is bringing us closer to World War 3, I swear. 😱
 
Anyanka Bunny Killer said:
Attack them with hummus. Nobody expects hummus.
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True. 😀
 
GwenRaiden said:
What should we do about the war on terror? Feel pretty despondent about it, I suppose. The amount of deaths globally since 9/11 is an atrocity. The number of women, children and other innocents bombed in Afghanistan is a smear on humanity. Same goes for all the soldiers who have died in service, and the veterans who return home with PTSD and lifelong injuries, who have no help and even end up homeless due to medical bills.

What's happening now is symptomatic of what and the US, UK and other European countries have inflicted on middle eastern countries for decades.
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They're killing people of different beliefs.
 
Do you think for a moment if Iraq's main export was pomegranates that we would be there? What about all the African countries where the same thing is happening and we have no interest?

We can't claim to bring democracy to Iran because the US and Britain took it away from them. Mohammed Mossadegh, the legally elected prime minister of Iran, was deposed by the US and Britain in 1953. His foreign minister was killed and the prime minister was held under house arrest until his death in 1967. The west had parachuted Reza Pahlavi into power as the Shah of Iran, who promptly arrested, tortured and killed thousands of Iranian patriots. The US is right to be afraid the chickens will come home to roost.

This is not about religion or culture. This is about oil and money. As late as 1989, the US granted export licences to American Type Culture Collection for the delivery of botulinus, anthrax and clostridium perfringens plus 1400-litre fermentation tanks, supposedly to help the Iraqi's make vaccines against what were considered the biggest Iranian threats during the Iraq-Iran war. The US took out the facility in one of the first bombing raids on the suburbs outside of Baghdad.

This is an endless war that will bring America down. The fight is against some states but mainly against some dedicated organizations like Al Qaeda, the Taliban and others that do not represent any particular state. There is no one in those organizations who would be available to sign a peace treaty.
 
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I think the whole thing is like the princess' war on the pea. We become so faint hearted in merely half a century. We become so obsessed with a few media-bait violent deaths. In WWII, thousands of soldiers die every day and our grandparents live their lives in a much less paranoid way than ours.
 
Ethan Reigns said:
Do you think for a moment if Iraq's main export was pomegranates that we would be there? What about all the African countries where the same thing is happening and we have no interest?

We can't claim to bring democracy to Iran because the US and Britain took it away from them. Mohammed Mossadegh, the legally elected prime minister of Iran, was deposed by the US and Britain in 1953. His foreign minister was killed and the prime minister was held under house arrest until his death in 1967. The west had parachuted Reza Pahlavi into power as the Shah of Iran, who promptly arrested, tortured and killed thousands of Iranian patriots. The US is right to be afraid the chickens will come home to roost.

This is not about religion or culture. This is about oil and money. As late as 1989, the US granted export licences to American Type Culture Collection for the delivery of botulinus, anthrax and clostridium perfringens plus 1400-litre fermentation tanks, supposedly to help the Iraqi's make vaccines against what were considered the biggest Iranian threats during the Iraq-Iran war. The US took out the facility in one of the first bombing raids on the suburbs outside of Baghdad.

This is an endless war that will bring America down. The fight is against some states but mainly against some dedicated organizations like Al Qaeda, the Taliban and others that do not represent any particular state. There is no one in those organizations who would be available to sign a peace treaty.
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"You know, when we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question, why? Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed, spite, jealousy. And we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done. Like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore." -William Adama

I'm telling you (general you) right now, go home and start watching the 2003 reimagined Battlestar Galactica. I thought the many allegories to the Iraq War, the War on Terror, & the Patriot Act were getting dated but with the age of Trump I'm sorry to say it's as relevant as ever and for every point that @Ethan Reigns made. 🙁
 
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