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shortbus said: UNLIKE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF EVERY SINGLE WAR EVER, the United States does not take over the land that it conquers. If we did so, we would own over half of the planet. Heck, after we complete a "war" in another country not only do we not only NOT take them over, but we spend BILLIONS of dollars rebuilding their countries and making them better places to live.
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Not entirely true. I live in Italy, a country that looks like it's stuck in the 1950s. The US spent a lot of money rebuilding Japan after WWII, and we sent a lot of aid to Europe. BTW: America exists due to a war with England, if I remember my history lessons
As for not occupying other countries: That just makes sense, cause it's too expensive to stay. Can you imagine what your tax burden would be if you had to support the military it would require to hold all the countries the US has fought in!
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shortbus said: Heck, take the Panama Canal for instance.
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Uh, we lost it cause the leese ran out...
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shortbus said: If it was about what you say, the planet you live on would be named AMERICA. It is not, and when we are finished in Iraq, we will leave, and they will be an independently operating nation, where the people are free of fear, and governmental moderation and restriction.
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No, they are only free from the regime that was in place before we got there, but they are not free from us... The US gets involved with a lot of foreign countries. We even got a few dictators in place around the globe (so the whole "spreading democracy" argument is a total pipe dream). And after dumping millions, and sometimes billions, of dollars in economic aid into those countries they just turn on us later and then we have to go in and knock them down. The US put the Shaw or Iran in power, and when he was assasinated by his own people we backed Iraq in their border dispute / war with Iran. At what point did we liberate anyone in that mess?!
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shortbus said: Why can't you see that this is for good? Is it impossible that this is the case?
you're not watching Iraqi or Arab state run television by any chance are you?
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Nope, no Al Jazir on the TV at my house
"Why can't you see that this is for good?" Simple: What are we going to do when the next dictator in Iraq turns on us?...
Why not stop creating the very same monsters that we have to fight later on?...
