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Why don't you go to IS-controlled Syria and see how you feel about it. I'll wait. The fact is, in a democratic society, you are allowed to make comments and hol

Why don't you go to IS-controlled Syria and see how you feel about it. I'll wait. The fact is, in a democratic society, you are allowed to make comments and hold opinions like yours, as nonsensical as they are.

danbruc 12y ago
So what are you disagreeing with? Didn't the USA attack Iraq without justification? Did Iran fight wars I missed in the history books? Doesn't the USA have some quite backward Christians believing the earth is only a couple thousand years old and wanting to see all gays dead? Doesn't the USA still have capital punishment and makes use of it in 2015? Doesn't the USA use drones to kill people without due process? Didn't the USA torture people at detention site Cobalt or Guantanamo Bay? Doesn't the USA spy at its own people even if innocent? Didn't the USA stage a PR campaign leading to the Nayirah testimony? Didn't the USA present wrong evidence about weapons of mass destruction to the UN to justify the war against Iraq? Didn't the USA try to connect Saddam Hussein with 9/11? And this is not a complete list, covers only pretty recent history and doesn't not mention any actions where the USA took indirect actions. Note that I wanted to make the statement sound provocative, see the related comments, but take out the rhetoric tone and you have proven facts. And that IS behaves even worse than the USA doesn't make the USA look any better, you are just setting the bar for what qualifies as a good peaceful country pretty low. And by the way, this has nothing to do with a democratic society. You can have a perfect democracy and still behave evil against foreign nations. It actually is worse in the case of a democratic society because it implies that the actions were not done by a small evil regime but with support of the majority of the people.

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Why don't you go to IS-controlled Syria and see how you feel about it. I'll wait. The fact is, in a democratic society, you are allowed to make comments and hol

by ssalazar 12y ago

danbruc 12y ago
So what are you disagreeing with? Didn't the USA attack Iraq without justification? Did Iran fight wars I missed in the history books? Doesn't the USA have some quite backward Christians believing the earth is only a couple thousand years old and wanting to see all gays dead? Doesn't the USA still have capital punishment and makes use of it in 2015? Doesn't the USA use drones to kill people without due process? Didn't the USA torture people at detention site Cobalt or Guantanamo Bay? Doesn't the USA spy at its own people even if innocent? Didn't the USA stage a PR campaign leading to the Nayirah testimony? Didn't the USA present wrong evidence about weapons of mass destruction to the UN to justify the war against Iraq? Didn't the USA try to connect Saddam Hussein with 9/11? And this is not a complete list, covers only pretty recent history and doesn't not mention any actions where the USA took indirect actions. Note that I wanted to make the statement sound provocative, see the related comments, but take out the rhetoric tone and you have proven facts. And that IS behaves even worse than the USA doesn't make the USA look any better, you are just setting the bar for what qualifies as a good peaceful country pretty low. And by the way, this has nothing to do with a democratic society. You can have a perfect democracy and still behave evil against foreign nations. It actually is worse in the case of a democratic society because it implies that the actions were not done by a small evil regime but with support of the majority of the people.