(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.

OK, so it isn't that a military influences other governments, it's that the US does it more often? What is your argument? Is it only terrorism based on the amount that it's done or not? What about when the UN, which your country is a member, uses their military force to interfere with issues in Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, etc.? Your argument is flawed. It's based on the idea that America's actions are inherently bad and therefore so are whatever actions by her military. Your argument is only reliable if you ignore that this literally happens every day by almost all other countries in some form or another. Also, the definition of terrorism doesn't require a military. You're using military to exclusively apply that label to America.

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