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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
You know I have come to actually enjoy your internet personality. I hope you are similar in normal life.
So to be the devil's advocate to your argument with 2 questions.
You say and imply that the chemical weapons need to be removed at any cost. How do you feel about the United States and great Britain's use of depleted uranium in Iraq? (Recently Isreal used depleted uranium on Syria)
Depleted Uranium has/is causing hundreds perhaps thousands of birth defects, not to forget that there are thousands of people dying from cancers and that their environment is now a severely toxic wasteland incapable of being cleaned up.
How is taking a nation's nuclear waste and bombing innocent people somehow acceptable but poison gas is not?
Just to make my perspective clear : I do not believe in nations or any form of gouvernement. I believe a happy world is one in which all politicians and military commanders have had their necks placed in the yoke of a guillotine. The only side I support in this conflict (and all conflicts) is that of the innocent. I view people that support war, declare war and willing go and fight wars as subhuman cancerous disease.
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IMHO, it's all bad. No one should be using any of it. There should be a global clean up, every country, even the USA, and everyone cleans their act up and gets rid of weapons and agents that can cause long term damage to the unborn and living.
They are STILL having birth defects in Vietnam from Agent Orange after all these years, so the long term fallout from any of the stuff used these days is going to be beyond catastrophic. Of course, none of it will make western media, and it will be well hidden from western eyes, but a hell on earth is bring created right now.
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
but tbh, my goals these days are to stay focused on shooting porn pictures
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Amen. So many distractions.
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Originally Posted by baddog
So, what happens when you blow up a chemical weapons depot?
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Bombing the depots directly is a really bad idea. I'm sure they have other ways of taking care of them. But I wouldn't support bombing the weapons themselves. The collateral damage, long term and short, would be too great. From what I've read, there are special forces on the ground there from multiple countries, including NATO, so my guess is they are looking for safer alternatives.
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Originally Posted by baddog
Sorry, you are wrong
em·pire
ˈemˌpī(ə)r/
noun
an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly esp. an emperor or empress.
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Meh. Depends on what definition you're looking for and what context.
American Imperialism
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Where have we increased land in the past fifty years? Hawaii?
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We have expanded by placing our military in key positions globally, as all Empires before us did. That is what Empires do. We have not "taken" land from these countries, but we do not leave. Gitmo is a prime example of this. The Cubans have never cashed a single check written from the US government for the lease of that land. They want us to go, we refuse.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Where is the US "securing resources"? We were just in Iraq, one of the major oil producers in the world, and we just... Left.
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Middle East, Africa, Asia...
We never leave. Not even Iraq. US troops are leaving and being replaces by mercenaries, paid for by the US tax payer, costing them somewhere around
$3.5 billion a year. However, that hardly gets a blurb of news. All you hear is the US is pulling out as planned, well done, we did it! Nothing could be further from the truth. It's just a pony show to gear up for the next elections so the democrats can claim they ended the war. Ignorant Americans won't know any better and thank them for bringing their boys home.
Oh... the best part... For the first time EVER, the mercenaries are being commanded by the State Department.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
However, seems we have left Iraq (have we fully left yet?) and we plan on leaving Afghanistan.
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See post above. Same is going to happen in Afghanistan.
Like the business of rebuilding a nation once we destroy it, there is HUGE money in private security contractors. War = huge profits for those in the war business.