05-16-2015, 11:35 PM
(05-16-2015, 11:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: ...and terrorism from the Middle East has gone on much longer than the examples I provided (do you need me to provide others?). I assume it is your recommendation we just build some sort of wall and keep to ourselves and don't go "meddling".
Regardless what you and others try to assert; we did not start the atrocities that take place in the middle east nor did we cause it to branch out. Your stance of what happens over there stays over there is not one I can share. Let them murder, rape, torture whoever they want as long as they keep to themselves and I remain ignorant of it. Unfortunately I do not have that luxury. I have seen the curtain pulled back.
Terrorism in the ME has gone on for millennia. It's described in the Bible even. I am merely saying the animosity towards us, and the rest of the western world, is not just because they decided to hate us one day. The colonial powers and then later our meddling from the formation of Israel onward, has caused the issue of terrorism going beyond their region.
For the record, I am not saying we should just ignore atrocities. I just find the way we pick and choose which atrocities to care about to be hypocritical, how we only care if it is to our advantage to care. Oftentimes spending money to care about these things that could otherwise be spent helping our own citizenry.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
