Oh, good support there bucko.
1) You act as if anyone can buy an AK-47, and as if 5 dollars is a trifling amount of money. Remember, the people in these nations are suppressed by tyrannical leaders not just physically, mentally, and spiritually but economically. The only reason "selfish" causes get off the ground is because they're usually funded by the US, some random nation, or some business/interest group.
2) People do start selfless causes--all the time. They just don't ever get the notoriety to be helped, because the media is geared towards the atrocities that occurred, not why they occurred.
True, to a point, but I never implied they were psychopaths. I'm merely saying what they are. Despite why they joined up, their wants, needs, everything except for how well they can shoot and if they can hold a gun don't matter. The US doesn't ask them what they joined up for, they just accept them, and use them. That's the reality of the military. So yes, they are machines to be used as a leader sees fit, whether they like it or not. That's what they're paid for.
No, I don't think you read anything I said--we HAD ALREADY COMMITTED THE RESOURCES. Read. Please. In Somalia, we already had troops on the ground, in the area, and they were pulled out because of the BHD incident. Seriously, you keep repeating the same bull**** and I keep telling you why you're wrong, and you won't listen.
Now we'd have to start a draft, yes, but what about when our army was doing nothing in 91? I'm not asking for everyone to go out and help everyone else right goddamned now, I'm asking that we commit resources to wars we can fight when we can fight them, saving millions of lives instead of sitting back and watching the slaughter occur. We could've easily gone into Rwanda, we already were in Somalia, but we chose not to do ****. Instead, a few years later, we decided to "tear down Saddam's corrupt regime", as if him killing people recklessly (don't get me wrong, he did some ****ed up ****) was worse than a genocide that occurred over 5 weeks, one that broke the laws that the UN, not the US, set down, and that nobody did a damn thing to stop. I'm not talking about current so much as I am current compared to past. How is Iraq oh so much worse than Rwanda or Somalia?
No, I'm enraged at our responses to things that happened. Yeah, bad **** happens I realize that, but you don't seem to be grasping that one million, let me repeat that for you one million[/u][/b] people died as a result of US and UN inaction. Do you get it yet? Not one hundred, not one thousand, not one hundred thousand, one million. One million plus, in fact. In two conflicts that could've easily been averted had we committed the resources we had ready to go. The problem is the people, true. But have you ever heard of the saying "To not stop the problem is to become a part of the problem"? Or "Through inaction one becomes a part of the problem"? Because those two sayings fit pretty goddamned well.
You failed miserably.
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