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Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx
Goat - Maybe all those things you mention should have been prevented? Or at least looked at a little bit closer...like say, maybe a quarter of the attention the palestinian conflict gets. It's no secret why we have so much interest in the Middle East, and the motives are pretty sneaky, and double standard-ish. With that all said, I don't recall people making snide cryptic remarks about taking Milosevic. I don't know why we shouldn't try and do something to change Rwanda for example. I mean, if we put a leader in power who is bad news, then isn't it our responsibility to remove him? The whole idea that we're playing police officer of the world kinda stops short when we remember how intertwined we were with Saddam's rise to power. This particular dictatorship is more our business then ...well Milosevic.
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While I agree that we do create our own problems (Failing to clean up our messes in our earlier support of both Iraq against Iran AND Afghanistan against the, then, USSR), I hardly think that guilt is a strong enough motivation for our current actions and that you only seem to be making Papa Goat's financial angle stronger. The jury's still out for me on this one because there are too many factors involved but somehow guilt doesn't ring true for me. Time will tell, I guess.
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