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Awesome picture! :thumb:
Looks like you Europeans are gonna start overflowing into the sea in a couple of decades
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BTW, stayin on y'all's topic, I also think that Bush should mind his own beezwacks.
Does Iraq look like it's in better shape now? before, it was organized chaos with Saddam. now it's just chaos.
I agree that the N. Koreans are in bad shape, but for things to change for the better, the people themselves (not my Nosey government) should start a revolution when THE people are ready so things can get back together and they can help themselves.
I believe that things work out naturaly.
The region is terrible. NO INVASION WILL HELP. Syria, Jordan and all these countries were divided post WW1 by European powers. these powers left, and these places aren't getting any better.
BTW, i call it invasion because DO YOU NAIVE PEOPLE REALLY THINK THAT SUPER POWERFUL COUNTRIES INVADE A COUNTRY FOR HUMANITARIAN REASON??!? OF COURSE NOT!
otherwise, The USA would have been setting things straight in AFRICA. They would save a few million more lives if Bush helped africa than they would with the same budget for Iraq.
It's all frikin political.
I'm proud to be American, but when i see our foreign policy, I bow my head in shame.
Looks like you Europeans are gonna start overflowing into the sea in a couple of decades
.......
BTW, stayin on y'all's topic, I also think that Bush should mind his own beezwacks.
Does Iraq look like it's in better shape now? before, it was organized chaos with Saddam. now it's just chaos.
I agree that the N. Koreans are in bad shape, but for things to change for the better, the people themselves (not my Nosey government) should start a revolution when THE people are ready so things can get back together and they can help themselves.
I believe that things work out naturaly.
The region is terrible. NO INVASION WILL HELP. Syria, Jordan and all these countries were divided post WW1 by European powers. these powers left, and these places aren't getting any better.
BTW, i call it invasion because DO YOU NAIVE PEOPLE REALLY THINK THAT SUPER POWERFUL COUNTRIES INVADE A COUNTRY FOR HUMANITARIAN REASON??!? OF COURSE NOT!
otherwise, The USA would have been setting things straight in AFRICA. They would save a few million more lives if Bush helped africa than they would with the same budget for Iraq.
It's all frikin political.
I'm proud to be American, but when i see our foreign policy, I bow my head in shame.
++ [ originally posted by Majed ] ++
Looks like you Europeans are gonna start overflowing into the sea in a couple of decades
Looks like you Europeans are gonna start overflowing into the sea in a couple of decades
Okay, this is a slightly tangental issue, but an important one none-the-less. Firstly, the USA's motives aren't really in question here. When Republican committees churn out lines suggesting the invasion of Iraq "to secure strategic oil reserves" as early as the mid-ninties, I can't see humanitarianism as their top priority.
That isn't important. It's the effects that matter, not the cause or the motivation of those involved. Yes, Afganistan (which the US has allocated an aid budget this year of approximately $3.95, give or take a few dollers - and no, I'm not missing an 'm', or a 'b') is a mangled wreck, and Iraq is currently being steered into a hole they'll spend the next century climbing out of, but I didn't, and don't agree with the invasion of either country.
Britain already screwed up Iraq when they carved it up in the first place. Look at Iraq on a map. Its borders are straight as an arrow, adn it's not a coincidence - Iraq is an artificial state, made up of a number of distinct ethnic groups. With Sadam gone, these groups should be seperated, but instead they'll get lumped in together and probably wind up beating the hell out of eachother again.
Now look at North and South Korea. Again, we have an artificial state, but this time it's one ethnic group that's split in two. Unification of the states is natural. While we're at it, Gray, do you have anything to add on this - you're from S. Korea, right?
The second thing to note is that South Korea is rich. In other words, you have a big source of money to rebuild the North if they're reunited (which, as far as I know, is why the south prefer things as they are(!)). A prosperous country is rarely a problem in these days. I'd also referance the reunification of Germany here.
