Reply #120: Helping another country by ...

[gleaner]

providing food, water, help with rebuilding infrastructure or aiding them with education at their request was not what I was talking about. That would fall under reparations which means to give back what you have destroyed.

You fail to mention the occupation of Afghanistan by armed troops from the US, battles in civilian areas and the use of bombs and other munitions to further a US mission which the Afghans wish would end. The Russians occupied Afghanistan for about a decade in an attempt to make it a "client state," (read colony) without any result except the near destruction of the country and the culture. The U.S. is following the same road. We are killing them, they are killing us and our government is sacrificing our military for nothing.

I would suggest that you return to where you got the quick and fallacious definition of what a colony is and read further. Colonies didn't always provide wealth. Sometimes they simply provided land, occupied people to do the work of running the colony with none of the rewards, and they were wholly governed by the country that occupied them with the native peoples having no say so at all in making their own laws or forming their own government. It is easy to take one small part of a definition and flip it up as if it were the whole picture, but it doesn't provide the whole picture and it makes the person who does it look as if they hadn't bothered to find out what they were talking about.

If you want to debate with me, at least be knowledgeable. Otherwise, what's the point? You're not teaching me anything and it is really not very impressive.

You seem to be new here or you would have realized that we place a high premium on fact checking and research to validate statements. Your opinion is your own and you are entitled to it, but you will be best served if you present it as your opinion and not as fact that we have to absorb as if it were holy writ. Oh by the way, welcome to DU.