Societies seem to become more empathetic as time passes.
Bush and Co. have made the business of war acceptable again. Give the troops some Iraqi artifacts, some quick cash, and an Iraqi woman (or man!) to rape in the Green Zone brothel or a fellow female troop and they seem to be just as happy as the days of the Crusades where war was seen as a business as much as it is now. All of which seems to take a step backward as far as the advancement of values is concerned.
2006-09-06 09:58:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I am not a democrat, sorry that you wasted so much time with your mistaken rant. I am a Socialist. You are a black and white thinker, a typical Republican, living is easy with eyes closed misunderstanding all you see...
2006-09-06 10:58:33 · update #1
Wow, I concur. Thats a really good way of comparing the past and the present. Its so sad, though. Its as if american democratic morals are de-evolving. The only difference is that the Crusades were a religious affair, while we don't exactly know why America is fighting a war in Iraq. I mean come on! You've already got their president, they don't have any more nuks, and the people are at the verge of a religious civil war!
2006-09-06 10:08:38 · answer #1 · answered by ~*Prodigious*~ 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Its an interesting question to posit. I am of the same opinion you are that Bush, and his compatriots are contributing to our moral regress. Anytime preemptive action is taken against a people, without truly deliberating whether such action serves the best interests of national security, you are cheapening the value of human life. Any act of violence taken against ones fellow man must only be undertaken when all other peaceable options are exhausted. To cavalierly dismiss these non-belligerent alternatives, as was done in our resolution to assault Iraq, is to reduce human life to a triviality; a virtual inconvenience that can be wiped clean at ones whim.
The irony of Bush’s administration engendering moral decline is that they, compared to past administrations, have touted faith and religious values more than anyone. I find that the more one talks about morality, and the more one positions oneself in judgment over other’s moral shortcomings, the more likely that they are to be secretly depraved themselves. The greatest thugs are the ones that speak the loudest about God. The most pernicious warmongers are the ones who wax philosophical about peace and compassion. The ones who deride terrorists the most are the guiltiest of committing terrorist atrocities themselves.
My only hope is that we will have regressed so much in our moral integrity that we will respond to our own descent with a reactionary move in the other direction. Hopefully our disgust with our own immoral visage will compel us to do the right thing. Its time we supplant what is profitable with what is ethical.
2006-09-06 10:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
what should we do?? leave the Iraqi government to fall apart, and let some bad ruler come to power that will be just like the one we took down. Or maybe you would like another even like 9/11 to happen.
2006-09-06 10:05:38 · answer #3 · answered by alias16 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
u know, I was a soldier in the green zone, i never raped any one, was never told to. ithink your a moron for even suggesting sh!t like this. I dont like bush either, but your just plain stupid. We we're also forbiden spoils of war, no war trophy. US customs went thru all of my belongings making sure I had no stolen goods, so there goes that theory Einstein
2006-09-06 10:02:32 · answer #4 · answered by NNY 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Your party has killed 30 million unborn babies since 1971, promoted marriage between homosexuals, allowed Muslim countries to keep their women as slaves with no rights(while praising them for their diverse culture), allowed illegal immigrants to swamp our economy and health care system. Liberals have promoted a lifestyle of staying at home while pumping out illegitimate kids on welfare that hard working people fund. Think about it before saying empty statements with no proof or support.
What is "internal choice" stupid?
I hate arguing with guys like the one below me(and any liberal for that matter) because they are never as smart as I am.
Democrats stopped bigotry? Do some research and find who the first president to appoint a black secretary of state was. And, look who appointed Thomas to the supreme court. You take credit for something that we all did as a society.
2006-09-06 10:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Yes! Ah,clarity and intelligence. You're a good man for that!
The democrats have not "killed" any babies.Please!
The allowed internal choice and have stopped bigotry.
Pure goodness!
Now THAT is enligthenment.Promise me,young man,that you will not be disuaded by these reationaries?
2006-09-06 10:02:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Thanks Al Gore for bringing us the internet. Don't the Community Guidelines restrict your kind of propaganda ?
2006-09-06 10:04:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
yeas it is..no need to commet
2006-09-06 10:51:47 · answer #8 · answered by International Nationalty 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope
November 1979: Muslim extremists (Iranian variety) seized the U.S. embassy in Iran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days, following Democrat Jimmy Carter's masterful foreign policy granting Islamic fanaticism its first real foothold in the Middle East.
1982: Muslim extremists (mostly Hezbollah) began a nearly decade-long habit of taking Americans and Europeans hostage in Lebanon, killing William Buckley and holding Terry Anderson for 6 1/2 years.
April 1983: Muslim extremists (Islamic Jihad or possibly Hezbollah) bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 16 Americans.
October 1983: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) blew up the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut airport, killing 241 Marines.
December 1983: Muslim extremists (al-Dawa) blew up the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, killing five and injuring 80.
September 1984: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) exploded a truck bomb at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people, including two U.S. servicemen.
December 1984: Muslim extremists (probably Hezbollah) hijacked a Kuwait Airways airplane, landed in Iran and demanded the release of the 17 members of al-Dawa who had been arrested for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, killing two Americans before the siege was over.
June 14, 1985: Muslim extremists (Hezbollah) hijacked TWA Flight 847 out of Athens, diverting it to Beirut, taking the passengers hostage in return for the release of the Kuwait 17 as well as another 700 prisoners held by Israel. When their demands were not met, the Muslims shot U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac.
October 1985: Muslim extremists (Palestine Liberation Front backed by Libya) seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, killing 69-year-old American Leon Klinghoffer by shooting him and then tossing his body overboard.
December 1985: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed airports in Rome and Vienna, killing 20 people, including five Americans.
April 1986: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed a discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen in West Berlin, injuring hundreds and killing two, including a U.S. soldier.
December 1988: Muslim extremists (backed by Libya) bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
February 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, possibly with involvement of friendly rival al-Qaida) set off a bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center, killing six and wounding more than 1,000.
Spring 1993: Muslim extremists (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, the Sudanese Islamic Front and at least one member of Hamas) plot to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the U.N. complex, and the FBI's lower Manhattan headquarters.
November 1995: Muslim extremists (possibly Iranian "Party of God") explode a car bomb at U.S. military headquarters in Saudi Arabia, killing five U.S. military servicemen.
June 1996: Muslim extremists (13 Saudis and a Lebanese member of Hezbollah, probably with involvement of al-Qaida) explode a truck bomb outside the Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds.
August 1998: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) explode truck bombs at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 and injuring thousands.
October 2000: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) blow up the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 U.S. sailors.
Sept. 11, 2001: Muslim extremists (al-Qaida) hijack commercial aircraft and fly planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 Americans.
Get it?
Probably not
They are fighting for something they believe in so that pukes like you can feel free to sit around and accuse them of rape.
Moron
2006-09-06 10:04:21 · answer #9 · answered by SVern 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
no and the blame game is getting real old!!!
2006-09-06 10:00:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋