The problem with freedom for innocent people is that wicked people are always ruining the prospects for peace and prosperity by forcing bad ideas and policies on others. That is true everywhere, in Iraq, in America, and elsewhere.
Will Taiwan be destroyed by China while Biden remains silent?
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And who was it that treated the Afghanis far worse than that? It seems you have a lot of short term memory loss.
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That's a bit ironic considering that "we defended Vietnam from communists" and lost.
We "defended Afghanistan from murderous warlords" and lost.
Will we "defend" the other 2 and go 4 for 4?
Because of weak-kneed pansies.
Because of weak-kneed pansies.
Probably... Because of weak-kneed pansies.
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Rather we won the Vietnam war, forced the north Vietnamese to the peace table and signed a peace agreement that we knew they wouldn't honor if we didn't support the South Vietnamese government.
With the destruction of the Nixon presidency, the left no longer cared about the Vietnamese, they no longer protested, they no longer rioted in the cities (any of this sounding familiar?) and they threw the South Vietnamese to the wolves.
We didn't lose. Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban.
God only knows.
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In 2020 we had 10 deaths in Afghanistan. I'd call that a win.
There was no war there. We left for no good reason.
Yes, good people will always defend the innocent against wicked oppression wherever and whenever possible.
If that were true, then abortion mills would have closed up shop long ago due to lack of victims.
Just because righteous defenders of freedom and righteousness face huge opposition and losses as well as persecution and death at the hands of the wicked does not diminish the duty of the righteous to continue to fight for what is right.
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Do you believe that the US should be invading countries all over the globe?
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Invading foreign lands based on the benefit to our corrupt leaders is not "defending the innocent".
No nation has been tasked with ruling the world, except Israel in the future.
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It sure weeds out the weak ones
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Some of them
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How do we decide?
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The ones that threaten our friends first.
Then the ones that threaten our national security.
Then the ones that threaten global security.
And always try other measures first
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A quote from Ron Paul (http://www.antiwar.com/paul/paul30.html):
The US, nor any other nation currently on earth, is capable of dealing with every "treat to global security". It's foolishness and arrogance to think otherwise.
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I see this issue differently than the talking heads.
Think of the treasure and resources we spent protecting West Berlin and West Germany from its communist eastern counterpart.
But in WWII was not China also our friend? And today, Taiwan is still technically that same China and that same Chinese government of old, while the communists have taken over the mainland.
Should we not protect them with the same zeal? If not, explain to me WHY not?
Think of the treasure and resources we spent protecting West Berlin and West Germany from its communist eastern counterpart.
But in WWII was not China also our friend? And today, Taiwan is still technically that same China and that same Chinese government of old, while the communists have taken over the mainland.
Should we not protect them with the same zeal? If not, explain to me WHY not?
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It is vital to America's interests to protect the petroleum resources in the Middle East, and so to ensure stability in that region.
It was not vital to America's interest to intervene in the Rwandan genocide, for instance, and so we didn't.
And I put global security last.
And Jefferson could not have conceived of the modern world, and our role in it. I appreciate his sentiment and I understand why it was important when he wrote it, especially with regard to what was happening in Europe with our former Ally France.
But in this modern world, where the phone call that I make to my son on his aircraft carrier in South Korea, is a local call, put through in seconds, while I drive on paved roads in a 2-ton 300 horsepower box of steel and glass and plastic? A world in which most of the clothing I wear was made in China? A world where virtually none of the food that I eat is produced locally? And much of that is produced in other countries, especially this time of year?
It's a world he couldn't have imagined.