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Gopher
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| Each attack that is not responded to though, emboldens others. |
Exactly. So would withdrawing from the Middle East today, under these circumstances.
Mises: I think you are falling back on Chlamers-Johnson and Ron-Paul style dogma. I realize that that might set you off. But their simplistic, sweeping worldviews do not take into account the facts on the ground and modify themselves accordingly. They simply assert, assert, assert the same thing again, again, and again.
I reject that kind of thinking. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Taliban Stephen?  |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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Ron Paul... ahh...
Yeah. I'm a fundamentalist on this. If we're going to war, lets go to war. These muddled conflicts with undefined or underdefined goals are a waste of blood and bounty. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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The war in Afghanistan is now at a point to where it's like watching an American football game where the team with the lead grinds down the clock while the team that's behind throws 50 yard passes every play in an attempt to catch up before the clock runs out.
I don't even see any benefit Canada achieves from being involved, especially if Canadians are concerned about terrorism.
We in America didn't have terrorism problems until after we started supporting Israel. That caused a Christian Palestinian to murder Bobby Kennedy. Then terrorism in America spiked after we sent our army to the Middle East in 1990. The Gulf War, along with our ongoing support for Israel, resulted in attacks on American civilians in 1993 and 2001.
I can only see Canada's invasion of Afghanistan as something that has a larger chance of causing attacks on Canadians than preventing such attacks, especially with the "You mess with me, you mess with the whole trailer park" mentality that seems so common in the Middle East. |
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