: *rolls his eyes* Maybe you shouldn't read the tabloids,
: and instead have a look at the very statistic provided
: by the Afghan government: "the Afghan
: government estimates 48 people were killed and 117
: injured"
"History is written by the victors." If there's one statistic you don't beleive this year, make it this one.
: Then you are not concord with the rest of the world, my
: friend! The United Nations has this chief resolution:
: humanitarian rights shall be upheld in all countries
: of the world. Indeed, the United Nations, especially
: the Security Council, will form resolutions and demand
: the compliance of a country that defies its directive
: of providing human rights to all.
Yes, but the US just wanted to destroy Afghanistan. They would have left it as a burned-out shithole in a worse state than when they got there if their allies hadn't managed to convince them that rebuilding Afgahnistan was in their own interest. Talk about lack of hindsight.
: How convenient of you to forget the British, Canadian,
: Italian, and other allied troops who fought and died
: in the beginning of the war of Operation Freedom.
: Truly, that is exactly what this war is about: freeing
: the world from terrorism, in all its forms, exactly as
: is believed by the United States of America, the
: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
: the State of Israel, the Russian Federation, the
: Italian Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, and the
: Republic of Poland. And even more nations share this
: sentiment.
Apparently only recently believed by the USA, who helped the war against terrorism by funding the IRA, and by training and putting in place the Latin American dictators.
Israel is in many people's books a terrorist state. They've been seen to fire at children who've stayed out past curfew time (in Israel-speak, curfew is not from hour-x onwards, but they last for entire days.)
: Misreading number two. Did you even read what I said, not
: skim it? And tell me how very much is Great Britain
: not to blame for killing thousands in a matter of
: weeks during the same days of World War II, half a
: globe away in Germany as Cologne, Dresden, Krefeld,
: Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg, Bonn, Bremen,
: Frankfurt, Stüttgart, and Munich were flattened ,
: completely, (I was there not 17 months ago to see the
: destruction and total reparation of everything myself
: firsthand) carpet bombed without discrimination for
: civilian or military personel. Their rationale: they
: were all Nazis.
There is no excuse.
: And that was no mere stategy to stop the War, no no! That
: was in retaliatory vengence for Hitler’s bomb
: attacks on England, especially the V-1 and V-2 damage
: done to London.
Well, vengeance on behalf the blizted cities of the UK probaboly had some part ot play, but there was actually a strategy. It was believed that by bombing the Germans their morale would be sufficiently reduced so that they would revolt against the Nazis. Note that I saud "a strategy", not "a good/clever strategy".
: Now, look again at what I said: war requires a lot of
: tough, really tough, moral decisions. And Truman made
: the right one.
Yeah...right. I'm sure that's the reasonin gused for killing thousands of people by flying planes into them.
: Or would you prefer to have the Province of Britain,
: Conquered Island Dominion of Nazi Germany, slave to
: the whim of Adolph Hitler III, unified at last under
: the Swastika of the Third Reich, the Green Emerald on
: the Ring of the Führer’s Fist?
Not likely, Operation Sealion failed, and that was the one and only chance that rat-faced twat had of conquering the UK, and the aforementioned twat's economy was falling apart in the last 2 years of the War.
: Or the Pacific States of America, the territory
: surrendered to the Japenese Empire of the Sun in
: compliance with its demands, and threat of the
: complete destruction of the Land of the Free?
That I would definately NOT like to see, but why on earth does such an oppresive (in the past mainly) nation call themselves the Land of the Free?
: The first and hopefully last time, yes. This is called
: responsibility.
To whom? To your country or to humanity as a whole? I'd think the latter.
: What America did was prevent the death of virtually the
: entire Japanese population.
You know, I don't think there's ever been a country whose population was virtually entirely in the military...
Oh, and Stinger:
:Be damn glad that we're pretty decent when it comes
:to throwing our weight around. Because it could have just
:as easily been Japen and Germany that were discussing the
:invasion of Iraq. As if that would have taken months to
:debate. Heh?
Yeah, cheers, mate. At least in this war you didn't take a few years to decide whether to join or not.
