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In reply to the discussion: Imagine China sending a drone into the USA airspace to kill someone.... [View all]BainsBane
(57,786 posts)Firstly, we aren't at war with those countries. So that is hardly a defense. Secondly, how does the fact a dictatorship is Islamic make its people justifiable targets for murder as opposed to another kind of dictatorship? Thirdly those all happen to be dictatorships we have bankrolled and propped up. Iran is not a dictatorship. They were a dictatorship before the Revolution of 1979, when the US backed the shaw and overthrew democratically elected governments in the 1950s. Neither Jordan, Libya under Qaddafi or Syria were "Islamic" dictatorships. They were/are in fact secular dictatorships with Muslim populations. This country has long been cozy with dictatorships and put many of them in place, like in Iran and the right-wing military dictatorships throughout Latin America is the 70s and 80s. Dictatorship is hardly a justification for war, unless of course you are a neo-con with no understanding of your nation's history of foreign relations. Your point is wrong on every level.