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Originally Posted by Pythonic
Im fine with the war because we need to help Iraq take care of itself. If we left now it would just happen all over again. However I'm not alright with all the aid we are giving to other countries.
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its kinda sad, but this is a fucked if we do fucked if we dont situation.
take the movie Charlie Wilsons War for example: people were being slaughtered so charlie wilson got the US people to fund a war against those peoples' enemies. well that saves some of those people from being slaughtered, but it causes a number of other problems including US domestic economic issues. funding war is extremely fucking expensive. in fact, war is the most expensive thing in existence. SOMEBODY has to pay for it, and it ends up being you and me.
this is a verrrrrrry complicated issue. on the one hand, the duty of the US is to the US, but on the other hand it just seems wrong and regressive to not expend some kind of sacrifice for non-US.
i disagree completely that the US should be in iraq because it is not a US issue. it is, however, a global issue. if it was the UN in iraq that would be way different. we would be logically pursuing the goal of liberating them because it is a global human issue, and US wouldn't be paying for it exclusively. in this scenario, because its the US in there and not some conglomeration of nations, the correct move is for US to pull out because US is fucking her first and foremost duty, fucking her citizens.
put succinctly: yes the world needs policing just like small nations need policing, but it is not up to the US to police the world. it is up to the US to provide for her citizens. this is CLEARLY not happening when we are policing the world beyond our means.