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Is there any potential war on the horizon that you would support?

Is there any potential war on the horizon that you would support?

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Any of them where we have reason to believe it is in our national interest to intervene, and where there is reason to think we could alter the outcome in our favor, and that the outcome would be worth the effort.


Iran... yes. It would be in our interests that Iran not develop nukes.

Syria... meh. I can see where it might be in our interests to control who ends up running Syria, as they've been a constant ****-stirrer in the mideast a long time.

China... well, come the day that China invades Taiwan or otherwise attempts to infringe on US interests in the Asian region, yes. That will likely be a big one, if it happens.


And yes, when I say "will support" I do indeed mean "yes, I'd go fight personally if they'd let me." I tried to join for Gulf Round One but was disqual'd due to hearing problems, regrettably. I'm looking into treatments for that but they'd probably consider me too old to join now... but yeah I'd still go if they'd let me.
 
Short of the US being invaded by a foreign country, no, I can't think of any wars I'd support.
 
I voted "maybe but unlikely" because the poll didn't have an "others" line, for places like the Balkans and Sudan, and various less-than-famous African regional wars. The best war however, that I guess everyone could support, would be to break up the nation states of Europe, and Russia, and maybe even china, so that those large lands can be reorganized regionally, with sensitivity to the interests of local people. This is truely in the interest of the greater good, not just another interventionist move. The united states has managed to become the world's greatest empire because of its sensitivity to its people in all of its 50 states, something other countries still fail to do even these days.
 
I would support a war to liberate North Korea, if it was executed at the right time.
 
Zariak said:
I would support a war to liberate North Korea, if it was executed at the right time.
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While I feel for the people of North Korea, I have no interest in liberating them.

Except... if NK invaded SK (again), then I would be willing to fight for SK, and would consider it almost mandatory to then liberate NK as a matter of eliminating future threats.

If we had the political wherewithal to actually go in and kick ass... which I'm not convinced that we do anymore.
 
Zariak said:
I would support a war to liberate North Korea, if it was executed at the right time.
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Seriously, who says North Koreans want to be "liberated"? Who gives you the right to decide what form of government they ought to have?
 
Cephus said:
Seriously, who says North Koreans want to be "liberated"? Who gives you the right to decide what form of government they ought to have?
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Oh, I don't know maybe 200,000 slaves, the millions of starving people, and the thousands in labor camps?

I'm sure they don't want to be liberated! :D
 
radcen said:
Is there any potential war on the horizon that you would support?
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Absolutely -- a war on the "Global Economy"! .. The "Global Economy" merely being a euphemism for wage-slave workers in a borderless nationless world.
 
Zariak said:
Oh, I don't know maybe 200,000 slaves, the millions of starving people, and the thousands in labor camps?

I'm sure they don't want to be liberated! :D
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Sorry you don't listen, but have they ASKED for liberation? No? Then you have no right to liberate them.
 
Cephus said:
Sorry you don't listen, but have they ASKED for liberation? No? Then you have no right to liberate them.
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Sorry you don't understand. Did the Jews in the concentration camp ask for liberation? I'm sure they wanted it, but it's pretty hard to shout for help when you have a rag shoved down your throat. They have their own right to be liberated, not to be born and worked to death in a camp their entire life.
 
A war on politicians I could get behind.

Line 'em up, slap a few CCs of Sodium Pentathol in them and ask "have you ever used your position for personal gain?".
 
Cephus said:
Seriously, who says North Koreans want to be "liberated"? Who gives you the right to decide what form of government they ought to have?
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I'm not ready to send in the troops but I really feel sorry for those poor, abused people.

Just look at South Korea, same ethnicity, and see the contrast.
 
specklebang said:
I'm not ready to send in the troops but I really feel sorry for those poor, abused people.

Just look at South Korea, same ethnicity, and see the contrast.
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Oh, I agree, we're definitely not ready to do that, but I would support a war on North Korea if one ever began.
 
Iran, Syria and wipe out Hamas and Hez. Maybe some other stuff too.
 
specklebang said:
I'm not ready to send in the troops but I really feel sorry for those poor, abused people.

Just look at South Korea, same ethnicity, and see the contrast.
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I would never want to live like that, any more than I'd want to live in most Middle Eastern nations, because I dislike how they live. Far be it from me to tell them how to live though, especially since they haven't asked for my help. When and if they do, let me know. Until then, I'm against pre-emptive social engineering.
 
The Middle Eastern countries are practically utopian compared with NK. That's really saying something isn't it? Nobody is proposing that we "social engineer", I think we're just being empathetic.

Cephus said:
I would never want to live like that, any more than I'd want to live in most Middle Eastern nations, because I dislike how they live. Far be it from me to tell them how to live though, especially since they haven't asked for my help. When and if they do, let me know. Until then, I'm against pre-emptive social engineering.
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specklebang said:
The Middle Eastern countries are practically utopian compared with NK. That's really saying something isn't it? Nobody is proposing that we "social engineer", I think we're just being empathetic.
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It's a life they have chosen for generations. So long as they are unwilling to demonstrably act against it, it's none of our business how they live. Nobody had to show up before the American Revolution and say "we know the Americans really, really want to be free, we're just being empathetic by pro-actively forcing them from one lifestyle they've apparently chosen and embraced, to another one because we just know better".

I don't buy that. If they want freedom, they'll be willing to fight for it collectively as a people. We did.
 
Cephus said:
Sorry you don't listen, but have they ASKED for liberation? No? Then you have no right to liberate them.
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Because they won't instantly be put to death and their entire family just disappears or anything.... and the few that have escaped to South Korea HAVE spoken out against the atrocities, including a former KPA Officer in the 2004 documentary "Seoul Train" Feel free to look it up.
 
Krasche said:
Because they won't instantly be put to death and their entire family just disappears or anything.... and the few that have escaped to South Korea HAVE spoken out against the atrocities, including a former KPA Officer in the 2004 documentary "Seoul Train" Feel free to look it up.
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So you've still got a few people who cared enough to escape, you haven't demonstrated that the majority of people want to be freed from the system.
 
Cephus said:
So you've still got a few people who cared enough to escape, you haven't demonstrated that the majority of people want to be freed from the system.
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right, because the the other thousands of people just love being born and killed in slave camps.
 
I voted Syria for the obvious reason that the United Nation is obviously not going to do anything soon. The UN is crippled by its inability to agree on what should be done. Tens of thousands of people have already died. And it's easy too look at the situation objectively when it's not happening to you. These people need the help of the world, but aren't getting it. When the government of a people stops acting in favor of the welfare of the entire nation, something should be done.
 
No....

Supporting war is supporting death and destruction. How could anyone possibly SUPPORT a war? You deal with it, and hope it ends soon with the least casualties. But flat out support it? Never
 
hailthorn said:
I voted Syria for the obvious reason that the United Nation is obviously not going to do anything soon. The UN is crippled by its inability to agree on what should be done. Tens of thousands of people have already died. And it's easy too look at the situation objectively when it's not happening to you. These people need the help of the world, but aren't getting it. When the government of a people stops acting in favor of the welfare of the entire nation, something should be done.
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When the USofA goes into any Middle Eastern country, for any reason, and starts killing people, we doom ourselves to decades of hatred and terrorism.

It's not our fight, it's not our world, it's not our culture, and anything we do will be "wrong" by their standards.

It's best we stay out and let others "fix" that area of the world.
 
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