Freezy_Breezy said:
Regardless of what you think mate, they weren't. Objective evil does not exist. Good and evil are completely subjective, they're terms and concepts invented by humans. It simply doesn't exist.
Differnce of how we were raised I guess. Round here, people belive that their is objective evil linked to the devil and his henchmen, and that while they rarely show hide or tail, if they do, you must stomp them out fast, lest we end up with another d--- massacure, another d--- genocide, another d--- tyrant. But then again, I guess believing in God and the Devil are subjective, so to believe in objective evil, you must believe in a subjective devil (this logic makes my head spin =S)
These are not your affairs to meddle in. What you (collectively) forever fail to grasp is the intense history between these groups. You cannot solve their problems. You can demonise the villain du jour and proclaim yourself as the savior, but you can't solve these problems. Why do you think Africa is in an eternal state of fucked? Or East Europe? It's because these groups have been feuding and fighting far longer than your country has existed. You cannot stop this bloodshed. If you "save" one group, give them strength, they will go on to subjugate the other. The cultures involved are beyond yours.
This will probably earn me some hate, but who gives a shit what happened to them in World War II? That doesn't mean you can just steal land from other people. It was an atrocity as an isolated incident, stealing land from their sworn enemies of thousands of years is not acceptable. Once again, America has no right meddling in this shit. The bad blood goes back so long, all you're doing is giving the advantage to one side yet proclaiming yourselves the heroes at the same time.
Israel exists because the Jewish lobby in America is exceedingly powerful. That's it. Israel continues to attack, deceive, discriminate and generally fuck up that entire area because America not only allows them to, but condones it.
Yeah, it would be collectively, because I like researching other cultures along with military history(my favs: 1)US, 2)Scotland, 3)Japan, 4) Germany, 5)UK. yes, they are all big military powers). But that may be my problem. I am looking at thing on a tactical level and saying "This is easy. Why havent we done it already?" Even stratigically I may have that problem. I dont really understand all the politics that go into it (athough, I have always believe politics should be left OUT of the warroom). So yeah, we cant end the violence. And the ways we could are impractical (redraw boarders, permanent military presence, et al).
I didn't think it was ashamed so much as "Jesus Christ I am so sick of hearing that". You know, like people who are named Luke get tired of being called "Luke Skywalker" by the time they hit kindergarten.
Why yes, that is very true. Just as much as it is when we are compared to Westboro, even though Kansans have collectively disowned them.
Well, the rest of the West, I guess. If you're going to make fun of rednecks and inbreds, you generally reference Alabama. At least that's how it is in Australia.
Oh, yeah, Alabama holds that, along with still being considered racist thanks to it being the biggest stopper of civil rights. But each state and region has its own stereotypes here. Since the list would be to long if I did all 50 states, I will just to a quick run up of the 5 major regions:
Southwest: Hotter than hell (literally) and a desert wasteland. The only signs of life are Phoenix and Albuquerque.
South: A bunch of racist, inbred rednecks with an unhealthy obsession with guns, american pride, NASCAR, and pretty much the general redneck stereotype (which would take a while to explain)
Northeast: Home of all the rich fat cats, weather they be congressmen, bankers, or the people of New York City.
Midwest: The last stronghold of the old guard. We are locked in time and unable to move and only care about ourselves due to extreme isolationism. We are known to have a mile-wide fighting streak and be stubborn as mules.
West Coast: The home of the "immoral" majority. These people are lazy, expect the government to do everything for them, are a bunch of pot-smoking hippies, who are obessed with protecting the enviroment to the point of being bad for the enviroment and everything else they have contact with. They have also lost all sense of value to family and marriage, which will eventually destroy them.
Not that we Kansans hate the West Coast...we just hate them slightly less than we hate Missouri.
