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The bombing of Afghanistan has begun.
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| Eugene |
The bombing has begun.
Several targets have already been hit.
Read it on CNN, Reuters, any news site. |
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| mindshooter |
I jsut heatrd it on the news....they say they bombed military targets but who knows.....We cant always believe what the media tells us....
We should believe what we know not what we see on the TV.....
What does ppl think...was it right or wrong to bomb? |
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| Eugene |
Well, mindshooter, you're from Sweden, a "peace-loving" country where everything has been well, life is good and prosperous.
And the USA was also just like that, if not more so... until Sept. 11. Then everything changed.
Think about how you would feel if the comfortable and peaceful Sweden was rocked by a terrorist attack killing thousands and thousands of innocent people, who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I don't think you would be asking the question that you did. |
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| Miss Proximus |
Why would you not ask yourself that question?
I think it's stupid just to assume that these bombings are correct becasue the GREAT america has been hit...geezz...ever thought of the fact that this won't help? you can't go bomb everything the minute some terrorist attacks you....what about the people that live in the bombed area? what about the animals? and to think this is all justified even though christianity is such a big deal in the us...what ever happened to turning the other cheek? respecting fellow man...stuff like that?
| quote: | Originally posted by Eugene
Well, mindshooter, you're from Sweden, a "peace-loving" country where everything has been well, life is good and prosperous.
And the USA was also just like that, if not more so... until Sept. 11. Then everything changed.
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and what on earth makes you think that the US is a peace-loving country?????
sorry, just my 2 cents :) |
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| mindshooter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
Why would you not ask yourself that question?
I think it's stupid just to assume that these bombings are correct becasue the GREAT america has been hit...geezz...ever thought of the fact that this won't help? you can't go bomb everything the minute some terrorist attacks you....what about the people that live in the bombed area? what about the animals? and to think this is all justified even though christianity is such a big deal in the us...what ever happened to turning the other cheek? respecting fellow man...stuff like that?
and what on earth makes you think that the US is a peace-loving country?????
sorry, just my 2 cents :) |
Yeah.......I never said that USA deserved the terror attack...neither did i say that USA did the wrong thing by bombing Afghanistan.....
I think its ok if the targets IS very specified and only hits terrorist camps and stuffs altough i doubt it is!
Who knows? We will just have to wait and see.....last time USA bombed they "missed" and hit a hospital...... |
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| AnotherWay83 |
yeah...im pretty sure they're really bombing them...but i think they're trying to minimize casualties...did u hear abt the part where they're planning to supply rations to the ppl. even during the war...
surprisingly, we haven't heard of any civilian casualties....yet..
peace |
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| Eugene |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
what on earth makes you think that the US is a peace-loving country?????
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What I meant by that is that it has never experienced the full scope of any of the world wars, for example, and bloodshed on its soil has been rare.
Miss Proxi, yes you would still ask that question but if it happened close to you the answer would be much more clear :rolleyes: you would feel yourself in more imminent danger. |
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| Miss Proximus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eugene
Miss Proxi, yes you would still ask that question but if it happened close to you the answer would be much more clear :rolleyes: you would feel yourself in more imminent danger. |
I think it's clear that most citizen of coutries other than the US know what could be happening to them and they take that into account...the difference with the US is, that you people have always felt that you are the best, strongest, bravest, safest (etc :rolleyes: ) country in the world, and that's why nobody ever saw anything coming.
my point is...i would never feel the same way that americans are feeling now because i am not so damn stuck up when it comes to the safety of my country... |
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| cweb |
| First of all: Miss Proximus, would you please marry me?;) Seriously, I support your ideas. We will have to wait and see (and not through america-propaganda-cnn) what exactly the US bomb and what their targets are. But somehow I'm a bit confident, because its like the first time the US has been attacked itself, and perhaps they realise that they HAVE TO look for real reasons, and not bombing a country to stone age, when its already there. But as i have learned these days, THRUST NO ONE! And it make me sick, how especially the ing tony blair , crawls directly into doublejius ass. It seems, that everytime the US bomb st away, the british gov. is really happy and joined without even thinking for themselves. Sorry to all you brits (and of course us-citizens too), its by no means an insult to you, you=the folk, lol, have not the power, some elite have. And I really hate politicians ( them all, for example this schröder-dumb). I mean these attacks on the WTC are some really bad bull, and they have to die (but first you habve to find them!), but this s of western politicians act like they are the GOOD, but they are perhaps as evil as these other forces (not the same way, and of course not this obviously). The money and the economie has way too much power these days, look at my local swissair debacel, just because some bankiers. And I wanted to study ecomie myself, perhaps I should reconsider this decision and study something useful, like how to help animals survive. I hate those guys, I have to stop here. |
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| Eugene |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
my point is...i would never feel the same way that americans are feeling now because i am not so damn stuck up when it comes to the safety of my country... |
Miss Proxi... no offense but this is not a very intelligent post... Whatever you say is just words, typed an ocean away at that. It doesn't matter whether you're "stuck up about your country", the point is that if a massive murderous act occurred close to you or involved someone you know you would feel very strongly about possible retaliation (by the way, retaliation that is well-planned and aims to minimize casualties).
By the way I wasn't even born in America, I came here a few years ago. |
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| Miss Proximus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eugene
Miss Proxi... no offense but this is not a very intelligent post... Whatever you say is just words, typed an ocean away at that. It doesn't matter whether you're "stuck up about your country", the point is that if a massive murderous act occurred close to you or involved someone you know you would feel very strongly about possible retaliation (by the way, retaliation that is well-planned and aims to minimize casualties).
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Did you ever stop to think that there are people on this planet that don't think about retaliation? A girl was raped and murdered a few years ago, in a village not far from where i live...and what did her parents do? They did not swear they would retaliate, they helped with the investigation as much as they could, and even though the whole village was blaming some guy and stalking him...they didn't do anything, because they knew that it was not right to attack someone, especially not when you are not sure whether he did commit this crime...
and please, don't try to drag me down by quoting 1 phraze out of a whole story and then telling it wasn't intelligent to say... |
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| Blik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
Did you ever stop to think that there are people on this planet that don't think about retaliation? A girl was raped and murdered a few years ago, in a village not far from where i live...and what did her parents do? They did not swear they would retaliate, they helped with the investigation as much as they could, and even though the whole village was blaming some guy and stalking him...they didn't do anything, because they knew that it was not right to attack someone, especially not when you are not sure whether he did commit this crime...
and please, don't try to drag me down by quoting 1 phraze out of a whole story and then telling it wasn't intelligent to say... |
ehh, how the hell can yo compare those two things with eachother....??? so irrelevant to eachother, the WTC-attack was an attack against a whole nation and actually against all the western countries, cause they caused a financial crisis all over the world |
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