Taliban's gonna win Ya'll...

[Spider]

[Spider]

[Kane]

We should do Iraq next in another thread. 700 dead last month in bombings and gunfights with marginalized Sunni factions getting very violent again. Sectarian civil war brewing...impacted by Syria? Iran?

[The Dharma Bum]

Maybe if it didn't alway "go without saying" and people expressed a consistently negative view toward that type of activity there would be some political incentive to alter this extremely destructive behavior.

If you ask me our own hubris and corruption are the direct source of US security issues. Basically, our foreign policy is destructive rather than positive and it has to be stopped. It's better to stop it ourselves before it really gets out of hand and we self destruct.

Don't think it "it can't happen to us", look at history.

[PoS]

You want humans to stop fighting, give them an enemy they can all unite against.

Like aliens!

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

I think the transition to democratic societies would be fairly painless and quick if we didn't work so hard to undermine it in support of our commercial interests. We are literally spending billions to specifically do so. We are really putting in a monumental effort to shape the word according to our desires and in a lot of ways it's working. But in the fundamental task of maintaining the dominant position we held by chance of fate at the end of WWII our efforts have simply not been successful.

If the twin elements of US military aggression and commercial dominance wasn't such a prevalent aspect of our international relations we wouldn't have radical Islam as a concern. We could have skipped the entire Cold War, in fact. The USSR was never any threat to us and actually had the aligned interest with the US of needing a foreign bogeyman to justify the draconian internal social controls both states maintained as a matter of course.

When the USSR fell we immediately created a new bogeyman. And there you have it...