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In reply to the discussion: Repost as OP: All this talk of "right to retaliate" and "insurgents" is just legalistic twaddle [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)7. Not all the terrorists hate the U.S.
We are also fighting those who behead women and chop the hands off unbelievers. We are in these countries at the behest of their governments. In all the 'fog of war' stuff, we lose sight that, at least in some cases, we are doing what many would consider noble things in stopping those who kill and mutilate their own people and keep women as virtual slaves.
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Repost as OP: All this talk of "right to retaliate" and "insurgents" is just legalistic twaddle [View all]
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
OP
You forgot the most important part. President Obama will be President forever and ever
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#2
if obama behaves like "those awful republicans" there's not that much difference on those issues nt
msongs
Feb 2013
#3
Yep. It's not that there's no difference between the parties, it's that the differences
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#10
The number of DUers who refuse to admit how execrable the policy is has me contemplating on
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#60
I'm at least somewhat hopeful that she won't run. DU is not nearly as influential as it likes
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#6
Hillary45. Michelle46. President Obama nominated/becomes SCOTUS in 2018.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#51
Heavens, yes! Suggesting a Clinton-Obama dynasty gives the impression that
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#59
But what is your opinion on torture as practiced by CIA? Do you think president was right when he
idwiyo
Feb 2013
#74
Yes, and if we had stood by and let the Soviets help the Marxist Afghan government suppress the
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#21
That's the problem - government of Afganistan was a socialist government and just like Chiliean
idwiyo
Feb 2013
#75
What a load of bull that is. Our Saudi 'allies' chop off hands and behead women.
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#76
"Go back to the colonial era...boundaries deliberately drawn to maximise internal ethnic conflict."
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#61
Unfortunately, we all KNOW why Bush would never had used a drone (or any other weaponry)
bullwinkle428
Feb 2013
#48
Drones are here to stay because people buy into the fear racket and condone them and support them
Catherina
Feb 2013
#82
But..but..seeing as we can't win an actual war we must seem to be doing something.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#57
Thanks for a brilliant rant- copied to read whenever the BS overflows
green for victory
Feb 2013
#78
Of course you did: facts are "baseless" when you don't want them to be true.
ConservativeDemocrat
Feb 2013
#89
"The U.S. has more military firepower than the next five nations world wide combined. "
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#97
Conflicts like Libya and Syria are treated like Evil vs. Good in the U.S. media, but
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#100