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Quote by: Apeman So, give us an example of what kind of war is "worth" fighting for? |
If Jenny won't, I will....
I supported Desert Storm from the gitgo. Saddam Hussein was clearly the aggressor in brutally invading, without justification, our ally, Kuwait. In the process he was directly threatening not only our interests by militarily threatening the entire Gulf Oil region, but those of our allies in Europe and Asia, and of potentially holding that intensely vital region hostage.
I supported Bush pére's incursion into Somalia. I thought it was the right thing to do for the right reasons, the elimination of mass suffering due to the collapse of a national government. Alas, in the end it became yet another abject lesson in the limits of superpower's ability to occupy hostile territory... a lesson Bush's son would foolishly ignore 12 years later.
I supported Clinton's incursion into the Balkan's. It was a civil war that was threatening to escalate throughout the region, which Europe, Russia, the UN and the Moslem mideast seemed incapable of resolving and who were begging us to step in and solve it for them, which we did in short order, ending the genocide and ethnic cleansing, causing Milosovic to be removed from office and tried for war crimes, and without the loss of American lives.
And I supported Bush the younger's invasion of Afghanistan. That's where the people who attacked us on 9/11 were and the government of Afghanistan was harboring them.
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