by JamieW on Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:37 am
Hoooboy, something got stirred up here. Well, aviation, couple of things you are dead wrong on:
1) I have a peepee. Might want to not assume.
2) I have been to Africa. Check #1.
3) The appropriate response to 9/11 was to invade Afghanistan. While conducted by individuals, if you are going to rest your case on this, you have defeated yourself. It was conducted by a group with financial and security backing from the Afghanistan government. The line was drawn in the sand: give us these people or we are coming in. The problem with fighting terrorists is that they have no country per se. However, it does not mean they are not assisted greatly by that country.
Were we to say "oh, it's individuals" then you simply could not condemn America for the choices of its leaders as they are individuals. The soldiers are also individuals. See? Self-defeating.
America's slavery is simply recent. It is by no means the greatest instance of slavery ever. But let's not forget that in your country, the tribesmen were capturing and selling their fellow countrymen. While slavery is wrong, it is not as if America is the only country ever to do it. You could condem most of the modern world for slavery if that is your foundation.
On to Iraq. I don't support Iraq, but I do see justice in it. I further do not support the President providing a red herring so that the people of this country would get behind it. However, it does not mean Iraq did not require liberation from Saddam. Are you actually going to tell me that he was good to his people? How many thousands of Kurds did he kill? What was the quality of life of his people? The whole situation in that country was atrocious and realistically should have been done years ago.
Benna,
What is palestinian land? Palestine was never a sovereign state. Ever. It is a group of people that the Arab world has suddenly backed in an effort to push the Jews into the ocean. Saudi Arabia is something like 30 times the size of Israel but I don't see them offering to give up any of their land. Palestine is a pawn in this situation vs Israel and the Arab world.
And back to aviationwiz: whooops, looks like you went too far.
A man has been charged after allegedly punching a 73-year-old woman in the face, breaking her nose and stabbing her in the arm with a corkscrew before hitting a second woman with a bottle at a wedding reception in the Whitsunday Islands.