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Eric3_4_69
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Responsibilities and Moral Obligations
      #2269206 - 03/19/12 03:25 PM

Watching the news on Syria I cant help but to recall Obama's Libya speech "America’s responsibility as a leader” blah blah blah “some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different" blah blah blah "Those with the power to resist evil have a moral obligation to do so"

Syria's death toll goes from 7K to 20K, depending on the source.

Oh wait, Syria has no oil...my bad.

Rant over.

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Eric3_4_69]
      #2269233 - 03/19/12 04:02 PM

If you live believing that the world operates in terms of black and white, you will be consistently disappointed.

Every expert I've heard in the media has said that there is no good militraty option in Syria. There are no simple well defined targets and bombing the shitt out of the place isn't likely to resolve the situation. So please take your head out of the simpleton box.

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Eric3_4_69]
      #2269267 - 03/19/12 04:49 PM

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Oh wait, Syria has no oil...my bad.



My understanding is they do and that China gets it all because it is their infrastructure.

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Bob]
      #2269438 - 03/19/12 09:24 PM

A Chinaman and a Towelhead in cahoots with each other.

What will we cal "it"?


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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: IBG]
      #2269448 - 03/19/12 09:34 PM

Responibilities and moral obligations:
There's a conundrum in 2012...


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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Eric3_4_69]
      #2269553 - 03/20/12 05:15 AM

I really wish our stupid fcking country would stop this "city on a hill" attitude and declare us as "leaders" with "responsibility" to other countries.

Let them kill each other, spend money on Americans instead

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: SmackDaddy]
      #2269555 - 03/20/12 05:18 AM

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There are no simple well defined targets




Since when artillery units, tanks and armored vehicles are not well defined targets? They sure as hell defined them very well in Libya.

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Eric3_4_69]
      #2270329 - 03/21/12 06:44 AM

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln"

Lincoln was a smart guy and correct. we're phucking ourselves directly in the poop shoot.


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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: LeftOLeft]
      #2270338 - 03/21/12 07:05 AM

America doesn't "take care"of it's own...
but it will lend a helping hand to everyone else in the world
as we slowly go to the dump
Lady Liberty in New Yawk
look's like a pawn now days
and not what she was intended to be ....

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Eric3_4_69]
      #2270392 - 03/21/12 09:10 AM

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Eric3_4_69]
      #2270401 - 03/21/12 09:22 AM

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: Eric3_4_69]
      #2270405 - 03/21/12 09:25 AM

I'm surprised we aren't already in Syria fkng chit up. The fact
that we backed the Libyans and not the Syrians seems duplicitous.

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Re: Responsibilities and Moral Obligations [Re: rlh1919]
      #2270500 - 03/21/12 11:19 AM

Gnarly...

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