Forum Post: US boots on the ground nowin Uganda!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 14, 2011, 3:05 p.m. EST by hotdoghenry
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Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 14, 2011, 3:05 p.m. EST by hotdoghenry
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This content is user submitted and not an official statement
How is this relevant to OWS?
edit: little harsh
Relevant?
You do realize that WE are paying for this, right?
I was a bit abrupt there; sorry, first message now edited.
Nevertheless, we pay for a lot of things. There's a hundred news issues every day that don't really relate to economic policy, to dealing with corruption. How I feel about this otherwise is kinda moot. Here, I've got to ask how this news impacts OWS's outlook. I'm not really sure that it does, except as something else for the media to chase around.
"how this news impacts OWS's outlook. I'm not really sure that it does, except as something else for the media to chase around."
I think you are being a bit myopic about how this impacts, or is OWS giving up the mantle of "the 99%"?
If OWS/the 99% are simply going to ignore YET ANOTHER MILITARY ENGAGEMENT by the President elected on a platform of ending the goddamn conflicts, what legitimacy do any of the other complaints have?
The military-industrial-complex can go and start another fucking war, but please don't take away from our PR...seriously?
It's just information. You can think whatever you like about it.
Is this supposed to be bad? Being the world's only superpower, we have a moral responsibility to help those in need. Our worth as human beings is more important than any invisible national boundary.
So what about all those millions suffering in N. Korea? What about Syria? and Zimbabwe and Myanmar and Somalia and...
Get the point?
Yes, and I think we should try and so something to help all of them. We certainly have the man power. And btw, he's only sending a small amount of troops to train the locals.
"btw, he's only sending a small amount of troops to train the locals"
How did Viet Nam begin?
Oh wait...
As for whether we have some moral obligation to assist these countries, I can think of thousands of ways we could help that would not include yet another military intervention.
if you read further into this specific crisis, you'll find that much has already been done in that respect. But the fact is, some things will never change without force. PEOPLE ARE DYING, while we sit back and drink our kool-aid.
"PEOPLE ARE DYING"
People will ALWAYS be dying.
People have been dying horrible deaths in North Korea for 60+ years now, but I [don't] hear anyone screaming that we have to help those millions...
What about Syria? They believed in the whole "Arab Spring", but yet we are sitting back letting Asad slaughter them. How about Iran? We did leave those poor students to rot in summer '09, right? Why not invade Iran? We could even use the cover story of the recent "assassination plot"...
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I don't see anywhere where we disagree in this last post.