(May 7, 2014 at 11:09 pm)Heywood Wrote: Negative Ryantology....if you were paying full attention you would have seen that in this thread I have already expressed my disdain for our past support of Hussien and listed that fact as why we had a moral obligation to remove him even if it meant shedding some of our own blood.
And a shit ton of theirs, right. At least the survivors have the freedom to live under whatever wealthy warlord has the most guns in their region, and the freedom to be blown up by car bombs with no warning.
Apparently, moral obligations for freedom do not extend to all those freedom-starved people living under tyrants who don't control the world's fifth-largest petroleum reserves, or even to the other pair which made up Bush's Axis of Evil.
Quote:After screwing the Iraqi people over by supporting Hussein, we had an obligation to at least give them a chance for peace and freedom. You would have us just walk away without any attempt to remedy the situation....which is reprehensible.
Yeah, so reprehensible that there would be hundreds of thousands of them still alive today to do something about the problem on their own. So reprehensible even though it was obviously the right thing to do because our intervention was a catastrophic failure on every level, starting with the premise and ending with trillions in national debt due to us borrowing to pay for it. Note, of course, that I'm just going along with the idea that the true premise that this war was anything but an excuse to line some pockets with black gold that happened to come with a convenient excuse, because it's been eleven years and most of us figured it out quite a long time ago.
