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Old 04-23-2007, 10:57 PM   #2
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Except for the fact that it's not "OUR" problem to begin with. When a country is so economically tied to war profiteering as ours has become, that's when national and public interests decline, and it's only the weapons contracts that our citizens fight for, the men in suits leisurely accept victory or defeat, no matter the deaths they've become the primary cause of.

A lot of the wars/conflicts that you've mentioned as Russia being a "problem" were none other than their national support behind their interest groups, that doesn't make them inherently wrong, but it's just like changing United States to Russia in that sentence and coming out with the same thing: countries that use war to support political interest groups.

Just because the United States decided to go against the orders of every peace organization internationally to fight these wars doesn't mean its ideas are unique, nor does it mean the United States is the only one "brave" enough to fight these conflicts, it means that the leaders of the time period thought it okay to submit the citizens of their country into places they didn't want to be, their families didn't want them to be, and where the only support was from the tyrants behind the missile launch command buttons.
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