True American Disneyland view of the world. So our soldiers should only die for the American cause? The IRA could reach out and hit global targets far easier than any group in Iraq. In this fast changing world, how can you be so sure that they won’t? To say nothing of the supplying of terrorists in Africa, with Stinger missiles used to shoot down civilian airliners or holding American, British, Portuguese and Filipino citizens hostage. America’s strange silence when two passenger aircraft got shot down? Small when considering “American” lives but over the years it crept towards the USA. Maybe 9/11 could have been avoided if the good old USA took note of world events. Try to understand the real world, rather than running in gung-ho style. American forces have proved time and time again that they have no grasp of the real situation. Like our “friends” in the Humbee who opened fire on an RAF Puma because it wasn’t one they recognized??
As for the, “we are bigger than you attitude”, that is exactly why so many good US soldiers have died.
I was wondering when this would come up in all of these discussions.
Right. The way I see it, the War on Terrorism extends to all countries that support, harbor, aid, etc. terrorists, anywhere. Now, that doesn’t mean that the Marines get sent in every time. The severity of the situation dictates the response, as does the “host nation”s ability to control the situation itself, or with minimal assistance. The point being that the term “war” doesn’t necessarily mean a full-on military conflict in every context.
Now what about the IRA? Are they terorists? Sure. Are Aum Shinryko terrorists? Yup. But in both cases, they’re internal groups with very direct goals relating to their specific “host nations”. I.E. IRA members won’t be in Singapore blowing up discos anytime soon. As such, they may not actually fall under the purview of the “Global War On Terrorism”, which, after all, came about as the result of an international terrorist groups demolishing of the WTC towers, among other things.
The point is that I personally don’t believe internal groups like the IRA are the concern of the War on Terrorism. We’re after the big targets, the international-reaching groups capable of massive attacks.
Otherwise, we’ll be doing this ad infinitum, chasing down every single tiny group of people with guns and a gripe against their local government, once they set off a pipe bomb of course.
Now, if you do want to take action against the US for allowing support to ofilter to the IRA through banks and such, why not take it to the UN? I’m sure they’d love to use it against us right now, and you know it’d get a lot of press and attention. But as for the World According To Europe forming an army to invade the US? Go ahead and try, but think real hard about what that would mean, and who, economically speaking, just might stand up and give us some help…
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