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Originally posted by jaguar
While there are very few 'Pure' Extremists there are one hel of alot of symththisers and supporters. And look at northern ireland, opressed, often impoverished irish, gee that fits my model rather well wouldn't you say? (Yes i've been there)
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No, I wouldn't say that. I don't think what is happening in Northern Ireland is a matter of SES, it's more a matter of religious and territorial issues.
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From a stance i could say that the US interfering iwht who leads *any* country is wrong, i mena after all it is the poepl e of htat country, wheither through free elections, revolution etc who leads their country wihtout the artifical effect of a few hundred million in aid to the currant regime. Particualry in oil countries.
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Most of the oil countries are controlled by rich emirs and kings, who have been in power for umpteen gazillion years...well before the US was around.
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I don't think Russia intended to elave *anything* behind. Russias reason was teritorial gain, the US just wanted to piss them off, Afghastian was a pawn for thier use, then to be dumped.
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A pawn for both countries. As were all the former countries of the Eastern Bloc. There were plenty of countries played by the US, including Iraq. Certainly, it wasn't right. But if we're trying to remedy the injustices against third-world countries, we need to get down to the origins and go from there.
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In the Middle East its not so much an issue of poverty (which does exist) as power, many of thsoe nations and tier islamic elements feel that they are powerless pawn to the US (which they are) and resent this (oddly enough).
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For the record, all middle eastern countries are considered third world, with the exception of Israel.
I wouldn't say it is as much of a pawn situation anymore. I don't blame Arab countries for getting paranoid, given how much money is given to Israel. At the same time, the US has had relatively good relations with most of the Arab world for the past decade. The world has bitched at Israel for years...but no one made any initiative to bring the Israelis and Palestinians to the table until recently. Of course, that also depends on Israel's president of the month.
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If some state next to philadelphia started throwing money around in your internal politics so they could build a nuclear waste dump in your land or something wouldn't you be a tad pissed off too.
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We already have a nuclear waste dump next to Philadelphia...it's called New Jersey.
