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Originally Posted by 03USMC Okay lets see what I disagree with.
3. Or could it be that those countries example France have chosen to require assimilation to the culture and refused to bow to demands from immigrants to change to suit them? In the name of National Integrity.
4. Got news for you the Christians and Islamics have been going at in Lebanon/Turkey/Baltics for long time before Iraq was invaded.
5. Terrorism yeah I'll give you that too a degree. Petty crime no petty crime raises and falls. Smuggling/Trafficing are some of the most profitable criminal endeavors always have been. More are being caught because of hieghtened port and border security. |
Basically what I think as well.
These people have been slugging away at themselves and Europe far longer than any of this Iraq or Afghanistan business.
What I do agree to an extent is that terrorism cases go up. The 3/11 attack on the Madrid train station is an example of an attack directly related to Iraq.
The other stuff would be a false correlation because such cases have been around LONG before 2001. Funny how they seem to hit out at countries (that is kill civilians of) that are mainly against the war and demand US defeat and withdrawal.
The part that Mmarsh says and I do agree on is that it does affect the rest of the world. But then again, so many things do that too. Heck, pollution from your country's smoke stacks affect the neighbor sometimes more than it affects your own. Fishing in your country's waters prevent those fish from migrating to your neighboring country, causing their fisheries to get poorer. Making music videos and other things that often make it into MTV angers people around the world at spreading Western garbage and corrupting their children. The list goes on and on.
So then what do we do? Get rid of MTV? Stop making rap music? Stop fishing in our country's waters? Stop factories from making anything?