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Originally Posted by cnredd
All of your instances do not lack the perspective of what the consequences would be had we NOT done them...
Backing a dictator that kills 30,000 of his own people in Latin America?...Definitely not a good thing...
But if the OTHER option is to let someone ELSE become a dictator who will kill 300,000 of his own people AND attack America's allies and maybe even attack America itself through rogue elements, then the first option is WAY better...
Just look at Saddam...What do you think would've happened had we not helped him against the war against Iran...
Here's what would've happened...Iran would've won...Iran would take control of the country...Iran would've ethnicly cleansed the Sunni population...Iran would've sold off Iraq's resources and decimated the country...Iran would've gained knowledge from Iraq's existing biochemical and nuclear infrastructures...Iran would now be in range of attacking Israel and Europe with shorter range missiles...The radical leadership of Iran would hold vast more power in the Middle East...Saudi Arabia would easily be overrun by their "new" neighbors...
Understand now?...Stop looking at 5 year increments and start looking at the big picture...Had we not helped Saddam at the time, the current situation would be 10 times greater...if not 100...
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What about the countless of innocent civilians that were killed as a result for supporting dictators? You seem to care only about American solders that were killed...very typical. What about the history of over throughing democratically elected governments? The most recent one is Haiti. What about the assassination attempts of political leaders?
What you are attempting to do is also another typical human reaction; the justification of a unspeakable act. In other words, our dictator is better than someone elses dictator. Sort of reminds me of the CIA's saying about Saddam, "he's a son of a bleep but he is our son of a bleep" Your statement remands me a Madelyn Albright's, when he said that the sanction on Iraq was worth the deaths of innocent Children. I wonder if she should say that if it was happening in this Country? Would you approve of sanctions on this Country if you know that you and your family and countless others are doing to die as a result?
11-25-2007, 11:18 AM
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