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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
I'll give one of them a read hopefully by the end of the summer, my list is decently long right now. Thanks.
I understand what you are saying and I can see how you are right. If someone really wants to kill another group there is nothing we can do to stop them but not every genocide is on the same level. I can see perfectly how we can not stop it but if a group is as intensive in the genocide, it could possibly be stopped through economic means, but that obviously isn't a guarantee.
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I guess the point I am getting at is that unless we throw our military might completely into the fray and force peace we really can't do anything about it. Either way we end up choosing sides to stop the killing. If we do not choose sides we sit in the middle and get blown up by IED's. There is a point of diminishing returns. We, Americans, cannot police or fix the ills of the world and years of hatered through force, and mostly because the people of the US do not have the stomach to take the fight to evil people the way it needs to be done. Sure, we are great at the quick kill, but our society has no stomach for the long haul, socially or economically. I am ok with that, but lets stop putting ourselves into these situations and accept the fact that there are people out there who hate each other and sometimes it is better to let Darwinism work things out and figure out how we are going to deal with the left overs.
Problems in Africa are things that Africans should deal with, problems in the Balkans should be delt with by Europe. Same for the ME. The fact remains that our economy is globally interconnected to many nations and the stability of those countries affects us at home, some tangible, some not so tangible. We have enough problems here at home. Imagine if we spent all the money we have pissed away in Iraq on the immigration issue and sealing up our pourous borders? But guess what? To late for that. Now we have to deal with it.
06-10-2007, 08:08 AM
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