(12-22-2017, 01:26 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(12-22-2017, 12:33 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: Just so we're clear, you're saying using your military makes you a terrorist. Whether offensively or defensively, war is an effort influence and further political agendas. Using that argument, every country in history is a terrorist.

Are all those countries that assisted the US in Iraq and Afghanistan also terrorists?

No. Using your military around the globe as aggressors to influence, destabilise and take control is ,by your countries definition, terrorism.  There isn't a single nation that holds close to the reach aggressive US foreign policy has had around the globe on different continents. There isn't a single nation that interferes more politically with other sovereign nations. 

And I don't hate the US. Theres clear benefits to the US being the global bully, in fact it benefits my country more than most. I just think A) The guise that what America is doing overseas is  ultimately for a noble goal is ridiculous and B) There is a bubble effect going on where the US public is completely desensitised to how brutal US foreign policy is, how vast it reaches and how many millions of lives it negatively influences. Seeing yourself as the global deity who decides what happens and when isn't something to aspire too.

Actually terrorism is the use of terror to accomplish a political goal.

We don't use terror. We don't arbitrarily bomb mosques and churches to kill civilians to inspire fear in the populace.

We kill armed terrorists.. not church goers.

You're just flat out wrong.

Oh, and you should look into China's influence. They are much worse than the US.

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