RE: Can someone explain to me why the afghan war is unjust?
January 2, 2015 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 11:07 am by Faith No More.)
(January 2, 2015 at 10:54 am)abaris Wrote:(January 2, 2015 at 10:20 am)Faith No More Wrote: And guess who was one of those "freedom fighters" we armed to fight the Soviets? Osama Bin Laden. That's because one of the biggest travesties of our Middle East adventures is that we do so without even the slightest smidgen of foresight and a complete disrespect for the complexity of the region.
You said it yourself in your second paragraph, respect is certainly an issue, but the much bigger issue is ignorance. They didn't even know what awaited them.
Yeah, I was implying that the ignorance was a part of and a result of the disrespect. At least, that's how it sounded in my head.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
