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As long as we are appealing to emotion here, let's not forget that Saudis composed nearly 80% of the 9/11 hijackers that killed our women and children and blew
by abduhl 13y ago
As long as we are appealing to emotion here, let's not forget that Saudis composed nearly 80% of the 9/11 hijackers that killed our women and children and blew up our workplaces.
Saudi Arabia has done little to engender trust.
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoAnd yet we have pursued no actions against Saudi Arabia... I wonder if they have something we really need that is stopping us from declaring faceless or outright war on them?
- mkaziz 13y agoBlack gold.
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoTexas Tea.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoLet's count. On the one hand, put every non-US citizen killed by the US. On the other hand, put every US citizen killed by all other countries and terrorists combined. Guess which number is vastly bigger than the other. 5-10 thousand dead in 9/11? That's peanuts, compared to the disproportionate responses that ensued. (I'm not saying it's peanuts in an absolute sense. It's still a tragedy, of course. Any death is.)
- abduhl 13y agoYes, let's. You take care of the non-US citizen part and I'll give you a low-ball for the US citizens killed by other countries number. If we use this handy wikipedia page shown below we can see that US military casualties are at a touch over 1.3 million. Let me know when you're done being facetious and/or have an answer for your number of non-US citizens killed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualti...
- loganu 13y agoThat's 1.3 million since 1775. In the last 50 years, we're around 7 thousand.
- mkaziz 13y agoIn Iraq alone >10x that number have been killed since the invasion.
- loganu 13y agoI was referring to American numbers, as sourced in the Wiki article above. 10x that number in Iraqi/ Afghani numbers? Sure, I'd buy that.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoFrom my point of view, it was clear your comment and the GP both supported my insinuation that the US has killed far more people than it has lost.
- mkaziz 13y agoAnd that makes us better than the terrorists, how? 9/11 was an atrocity, no doubt, but people in Yemen and Pakistan live through the same atrocities daily. You know when the US government tells you it's killing enemy combatants in Pakistan via drone attacks? What they don't tell you is they define any combatants as men aged 18-40 in that region.
- polymatter 13y agoThe Saudi Arabian government didn't (as far as I know) sponsor or train the 9/11 hijackers. I also don't see how they were really furthering Saudi interests either.