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Jackpine Radical

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1. No, of course not. What's your point?

Reply to yurbud (Original post)

Mon Aug 26, 2013, 09:15 AM

Aug 2013

Those are all normal and acceptable means of diplomacy of a sort that we have used many times over the years, along with other humane interventions such as burying land mines all over the place and enacting blockades to block kids from getting medicine and food.

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What would our government do if Syria killed over a thousand civilians with white phosphorus or [View all] yurbud Aug 2013 OP

No, of course not. What's your point? Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #1

all of which are the only ways to end human rights abuses. yurbud Aug 2013 #2

Well, obviously. Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #5

The U.S. usually gets involved in conflicts with countries LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #3

Would the U.S. stop at Syria or would it also hold the country(ies) that no_hypocrisy Aug 2013 #4

Do as we say, not as we do! n2doc Aug 2013 #6

The arms companies are the one American industry that LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #7

and do what we, Israel, and international banks tell them to the letter yurbud Aug 2013 #8

I'm not sure Israel has much say in this matter n2doc Aug 2013 #9

Israel has a treaty with Egypt and Ally of Saudi under the table yurbud Aug 2013 #12

Good point - what if someone built a wall around a troublesome city bhikkhu Aug 2013 #10

I tell that story to my college students and I don't know if they believe that it actually happened yurbud Aug 2013 #11