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Thread #108549   Message #2261552
Posted By: Little Hawk
13-Feb-08 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Swift Boats 2008 from the Top Down
Subject: RE: BS: Swift Boats 2008 from the Top Down
The USA can't fix it. They are an invader. Invaders must leave some day. Then the local people, eventually, will fix it themselves...or they'll continue messing it up...but that's their business, after all, isn't it?

Would Americans want the Chinese to come in by force, occupy America, and "fix" what's wrong with the place? I don't think so!

Until most Americans become willing to recognize that other people don't like being invaded and occupied any more than they would, they are not going to get the point.

Example: I have always had a certain sympathy for the South in the Civil War. Why? Not because of the slavery issue, that's for sure! They were dead wrong on that one. No, because of the fact that the South, as a society and region, was being invaded by the North.

The South didn't want to take the North over and change their way of life. The North DID want to take the South over and change their way of life...and that didn't mean just ending slavery, not by any means. It meant wrecking an entire traditional society and plundering it.

For that reason, I sympathize to a great extent with the Southerners who fought a losing battle to hold back the overwhelming forces of the much more populous North in that war.

Invaders are like people who break into someone else's house to murder and to steal. Invasion is a criminal act. There are always ways to negotiate with a neighbour, ways to eventually arrive at agreements. Those who invade another country are not interested in arriving at any agreement...they are interested in taking by force that which is not theirs, simply because they believe they have the strength to do it and that no one can stop them. That is what a criminal believes.