If there was another terrorist attack and the people involved were Canadians, should US bomb Canada?

Question

Reason I ask this is it fair to blame a Country on the acts of a few individuals?

If they were US citizens from Maine, bomb Maine?

Answer 1

why not.. there's nothing like a modern day lynching. let's blame an entire race, religion, country for whatever reason we can think of... real or imagined ((hitler, saddam, bush, the kkk))

we would be totally OUTRAGED if another country had the audacity to attack the US for ANY reason -- yet we seem to find it acceptable to collectively blame entire countries for the actions of terrorist organizations..

UPDATE: what if saudi arabia, iraq, china decided they didn't like the way our government treats minorities, women, immigrants, etc? does that give them the right to attack our country?

obviously we wouldn't allow it. yet people continue to insist we force our ideologies on other countries. no one asked the US to police the world. i feel we are only fueling the flames of hatred other countries have for us.

Answer 2

The ones who attacked on 9/11 (allegedly) were Arabs mostly. Who bombed them?

See? you shouldn't try to blame the government for being unfair. It didn't bomb a country just because of the actions of some individuals. It bombed countries for completely different reasons.
(It's an irony in case you don't notice)

Answer 3

This has already happened. Some 15 years ago a terrorist bomb exploded in Montréal's Central Station killing tourists.

The pipe bomb had been placed there by a citizen of the USA in hopes of killing the Pope who was visiting Canada.

To this date I do not think we have retaliated... We did not even mention the ease (then) of crossing the border nor did we habour resentment.

Answer 4

on a similar time as the international isn't safer, it is bigoted (and intensely petty) to blanket the U. S. with the blame. What do i think of needs to be accomplished? user-friendly. enable the UN to have the means to do away with dictators rather of merely containing them. i do no longer for a 2d have faith that the U. S. asked for the 9/11 assaults. it is short sighted. the subject is that we combat by employing a series of regulations against communities and individuals who wreck those regulations to realize their aim. a lot of people criticize the conflict in Afghanistan, and sweetness why we're not accomplishing the needed effects. as quickly as we construct a bridge or a school or a street way, the terrorists ruin it. we strive to combat back, and our own inhabitants complains that we are no longer there doing what we are sent to do. the undemanding fact is that the international isn't safer because of the fact all of us have faith that all of us comprehend greater proper than all and sundry else. I advise this on a countrywide and someone count number. in the past 1939, people left a tyrant named Adolf Hitler on my own till it replaced into incredibly much too previous due, and seem what exceeded off then. Have we forgotten that when a tyrant arises interior the international, while communities use terror to get there way, that the international is worse of if we "depart them on my own"? No. We would desire to stand as much as those monsters.

Answer 5

If the U.S. were attacked by Canadian terrorists and we followed Bush's logic, we'd invade Mexico. In answer to your second question: no. I don't believe any region should be held responsible for terrorists who happened to live or grow up there. Further, I don't believe any military action will be helpful in eliminating terrorism. Diplomacy, international cooperation, intelligence (both kinds), separation of terrorists legitimate grievances against the U.S. (if any) from fanatical rantings, these things might help. War will only make things worse, except for the arms dealers, defense contractors and the rest of the military industrial complex.

Answer 6

heh, Given that most of the 9/11 morons were Saudi's and the US Government invaded Iraq, If they were really Canadians, maybe the Mexican's should be worried!!

Seriously, you have a point. If those individuals have the backing of a state, then a response against a state maybe appropriate, but you cannot condem an entire country because of a few idiots (you should consider the US has produced plenty of home grown terrorists who have attacked your own citizens so you already have a test case for you 'maine' senario).

Answer 7

Uhhh NO! Why would you punish the general population because of a few individuals. It's like if you have a murderer in your city do you punish the citizens of that city?

There will always be good and bad sides. If that really happened there would be no end and life itself would end.

Answer 8

Well heck Bush didn't bomb Saudi Arabia did he? No he went for some other country but the people that attacked us were Saudi's

Answer 9

If the Canadian government sponsered the attack, or the Canadian government protected the terrorists.. yes, we should certainly bomb them.

But Canada isn't going to do that.. so it's really a mute point.

Answer 10

Since Canada would partner with the United States to root out the organization that is causeing these acts of terrorism its not responsible to start a war with Canada.

If Canada is giving money to an organization that is then doing acts of terrorism than the United States needs to act to remove the Canadian government.


Afganistan gave aid to the Al Qaida network in 2001 and the United States acted appropriately to change the government of Afganistan.

We can go through this cycle that the world has seen for the last several thousand years and blow one another up or we can identify the root cause of why we don't get along and address that.

If not, there will just be non-stop attacking and that is not desirable.

For the last 1400 years there has been a perversion of Islam and the Koran to the benefit of an Islamic Aristocracy to commit acts of terrorism,

sometimes this has included the governments of countries, such as Afganistan was in 2001.

What is the United States government policy to change the attitudes of this perversion of Islam?

President Bush's attitude has been with us or against us, but then he went into Iraq, and now that has become a battleground of terrorism.

This policy of having wars will not solve this perversion of Islam,

It has not in the last 1400 years and it still hasn't stopped it.

Why do they hate us?

The reality in my view is this is a group of rich Islamic Aristocrats that brainwash teenage men, get them high on hashish and promise them virgins, in the medival time they would send these teenage boys into their gardens where there were prostitues and then promise that after the suicide mission the angels of allah would fly their soul back to this garden.

The London bombers in 2005 were products of upper middle class families.

They were brainwashed.

So, what I see currently is these terrorist attacks against the west have benefited the OPEC oil cartel and the families that run these governments.

Everyone knows I am right, everyone sees whats happening, these families that are getting rich are paying the Imans in the Whabbi schools to do this brainwashing.

We can't keep killing the products of these schools on the battlefield because these schools will stay in business.

The enemy is the oil barons in the middle east.

I hate to say it but the West needs to take over the Middle East completely with military action and replace these Islamic families with Democracies.

THis is neoconservative I understand.

This is what we did in Iraq and it was correct in my world view, since Saddamm Hussien was a state sponsor of terrorism. He was getting rich of the sale of Iraqui oil.

What the United States needs to do is persuade the rest of the civilized world that this plan of action is the correct course of action,

replacing tyranical Islamic aristocracy with democracy will solve the problem, democracies do not attack one another.

I think my solution is the only solution, if there are others I am open to them,

I just feel that doing military actions against state sponsored terrorism alone is not effective,

we don't need the cowboy attacks, we need the full force of the western world to replace tyrany and evil men with democratically elected governments.

Any questions email me.