Someone emailed me to say that America could live without war if we don't get involved..."like Canada". WHAT?

Question

Don't they remember that Canada had forces in Afghanistan just like us???

Me too, Darrell, me too. We couldn't have one if we weren't together in that one! Go USACAN

It is crap isn't it... they have no idea what they're talking about.

Answer 1

Meaning we isolate ourselves from world events, and just be spectators. We are not isolationists, like they are. We like to involve ourselves, and others like to involve us. Its our role as the only superpower. We tried to be isolationism, but the Germans sank the Lusitania in 1917, causing us to get involved in the First World War. Thereafter, we remained a decisive world force.

Answer 2

Look, you recieved an email from what we term in Canada as "a moron".

You see, morons believe that the world is a gumdrop fairy land which contains people who simply don't understand that they're doing things wrong and can be shown the error of their ways with a couple after school specials.

When in reality, we have people who kill others for trying to feed their families. We have people who bomb their own people to somehow cause issues for another country. We have people who will stop at nothing to control everything even at the cost of their own people.

Now, morons have a lot of phrases, for example:

"War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing."

- Tell that to the Jews who would have been slaughtered in WWII but were freed from concentration camps.

- Tell that to the south koreans who now have a strong economy and earn 10 times what their north counterparts did and who would most likely be starving now as they are in North Korea.

War is needed sometimes. It's a grim reality.

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Now, addressing the moron (and morons like him/her) directly.

War should never be the first step. But we shouldn't cower from it either.

You live in your own little bubble of existance, not seeing what's really happening around the world. You don't know about how people are suffering but you think you do, so you don't learn. That's why you're a moron.

You're content to let people starve, be raped and killed. You allow children to be kidnapped and be forced to be soldiers at 12. You're inactivity causes people to lose limbs when they step on landmines.

You cause this, because you choose to ignore reality because it upsets you and conflicts with your frame of refrence. No war is your motto, and you do have a voice in our democracy.

Go to a library and learn about empoverished nations. See what's been done. Sending money and/or food is a perfect example of how aid fails and adds to the problem.

Then, and only then, you can have an informed and reasonable viewpoint on war and it's place in the world.

Thanks for reading.

Answer 3

NATO has forces in Afghanistan, and Canada is part of NATO. But Canada for the most part, has not been in a war since 1945. So, 2 wartime actions, mind you contractually obligation one, every 56 years. A much better record than 9 in 60 years.

Answer 4

Good point, they didn't research it properly.

But I gotta say, I'd love to get less involved in POS little peacekeeping missions like Somalia and Kosovo where half the time we're unwanted anyway. I don't want to be isolationist, but I don't understand why we have to be the only nation in the firing line on stuff like that. If other nations are b!tching and moaning about how we do things, why don't they do it themselves instead?

Answer 5

I get politically bias forwarded emails too. The ones that bother me most are the religious ones. Just delete them. I also like to forward bullshit to the people that forwarded me that crap too.

Answer 6

I get those emails too. I think they must hit the wrong contact me or are just confused

Answer 7

SOME PEOPLE DONT REALIZE THAT FREEDOM ISNT FREE AND DONT CARE.....VERY GOOD QUESTION....WE WILL ALWAYS B AT WAR....THIS WAR NOW.....THEY STARTED THAT ONE, WE DIDNT,IM A VET AND I FOUGHT 4 FREEDOM, I ASK 2 GO BACK IN,THEY SAID IM OVER 40 YEARS OLD.......

Answer 8

just ignore these people its a group of idiots that don't have nothing better to do spam them and they will never return to your e~mail addy! or just block your addy for awhile they'll give up!

Answer 9

why do we usa go blow them all to hell and then rebuild them give them money anything they need we need to work and fix what we have here we dont need them we let take our jobs over there what about us? they ask us to send money to kids over seas, what about the kids here? have they heard of birth contol?

Answer 10

Americans are different, they (americans) think war solves problems.