OT : Australian intervention in Solomon Islands

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by oleg:
So how many Iraqi children want you trade for one American? All of them ?

And why do you belive what US goverment is doing is actually protecting your chieldren ? I have a feeling US became less secure after this colonial war. Saddam was no danger for US as we can see now. He had no WMD and was keeping religious fanatics in check.

That was really stupid. How many American young men gave their lives to keep Hitler from
spanking all of Europe? After the English had proclaimed “Peace in our time.” and paid a full
measure of appeasement? And the time before that when Europe took the world to war over the killing of a has-been royal that probably would have not been able to maintain his holdings for
another generation. And in the process set communism loose on the world. Which America
then held off at your door step for 50 years at great cost in lives and materials. And lets not
forget that most of this crap in the Middle East right now is the result of French and English
diplomacy at the end of world wars. IMHO it is far better to stamp the **** out of evil
governments right at the start, than to wait until the situation takes on an energy of it own. You speak with the naiveté of a person who has never risked all that he had for the benefit of others.

[ July 11, 2003, 00:36: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]