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In reply to the discussion: Rocket fired from south Lebanon towards Israel [View all]another_liberal
(8,821 posts)35. The United States is our country.
We have no right to try and force other cultures and other sovereign nations to adopt our customs and laws. We especially do not have a right to do so by the use of our overwhelming military force.
Let me ask you a question:
If Communist China's military were to become vastly superior to ours, would it be legal and justified for them to invade and occupy us on the grounds that so many of our young women are raped and abused every year, year-in-year-out? Would that be wrong of them, even though they claimed the reason was to protect the millions of American women whom our government is habitually unable to keep safe from rape and abuse?
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