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Bluenorthwest

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5. If we have to be the World Cops, each American should be compensated for doing that.

Reply to last1standing (Original post)

Sun Sep 1, 2013, 03:29 PM

Sep 2013

We get no healthcare, no dental, no vacation time, 29 States allow discrimination against gay people, and yet we are all supposed to have some Magical Responsibility that citizens of other nations don't have, to pay for and to be the World Police? That is our 'moral duty' but we continue to treat our own poorly and without respect?
Do you think people in other countries feel responsible for our sorrows? No, because they are not responsible for them. Should France come deal with the Chicago gun problems? If they don't should we say to them 'oh, so you just don't care about innocents shot down in cold blood'?

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Isolationism, Policemen for the World, or Something Else? [View all] last1standing Sep 2013 OP

Couldn't have said it better myself. iandhr Sep 2013 #1

Thanks. It's a shame that the only posts that get rec'd or responded to are flames. last1standing Sep 2013 #2

Online forums have never been the place for level headed debate. iandhr Sep 2013 #3

No, and I knew that going in. last1standing Sep 2013 #4

If we have to be the World Cops, each American should be compensated for doing that. Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #5

I don't think we should play policeman for the world or neglect our own people. last1standing Sep 2013 #6

Kicking on the off chance someone might want to discuss actual issues. last1standing Sep 2013 #7

I see. 99Forever Sep 2013 #8

I'm not sure I understand the reason for your anger. last1standing Sep 2013 #9

This pretty well outlines my terms. 99Forever Sep 2013 #10

As I thought my OP stated, I agree with Grayson regarding Syria. last1standing Sep 2013 #11

Bumping because this is the exact opposite of what Obama/Kerry decided to do. last1standing Sep 2013 #12

Can this even be solved diplomatically, though? Hayabusa Sep 2013 #13

I have no clue, but then neither does Obama. last1standing Sep 2013 #14