Why is it that I find myself inheremtly in full accord with Hovis Presley?
Maybe because, like him, I am European?
Maybe because, like him, I can walk past 1000 y.o. artefacts while commuting to work or school,
which reminds me of the RESPOSNIBILITY of NOT carpet bombing ANYONE on the assumed pretense that "WE ARE RIGHT, YOU ARE WRONG"?
Maybe because since the fall of the Roman Empire, there have been so many wars, essentially for reasons eerily clad on religious fanatism, that
we have had enough ?
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I had composed a long rant aimed at Webstermark, then got called elsewhere, and by the time I returned, I realized I was ranting at the right person but with the wrong arguments, so here I go again..
Suffice it to say, you, my dear, both as an individual and as a nation (don't anybody take offence by this) are too
Young to have a "European-wise historical memory".
While many cities in Europe still bear the scars of the religious wars between Christians and other Christians, on the grounds that "Jesus loves me more than he loves you!"
while the greatest "inconvenience" you suffered was the Civil War, 1861-1865.
After said date, all other conflicts in which the US were involved, bar none, were on foreign territory, across the oceans.
I would also like to point out that the two "fiends of the world", Iran and Iraq, once were prime allies and best friends with the USA, until world events decided they were not so friends anymore...
- Iran was the US's prime ally, outside NATO, to "curb Soviet expansionism" (look at a map from the 1970's, the US had the USSR virtually surrounded from Iceland to Thailand and the Philippines, across no less than three oceans!)
- once (vastly) corrupt Iran fell to the hands of Islamic fundamentalism with Imam Khomeini, Egypt and Iraq were courted away from the "fiendish grasp" of theUSSR and suddenly became "the West's only hope".
See what happened to them...
- I dare NOT think what could happen to Turkey... Your current powerful ally to curb Islamic terrorism... oh, wait, don't they have the Islamic Party in power and sistematically winning elections ?
- I already know what is happening to Pakistan... your nuclear friend to ward you against Indian expansionism...
Really, WebsterMark, you ought to drop your newspapers and study some contemporary history...
Who knows, you might learn a thing or two...