If the USA were ever occupied by another countries military would you...

[NNN0LHI]

Poll question: If the USA were ever occupied by another countries military would you...

[bryant69]

1. It would depend on the conditions.

Although I understand this is intended to argue that we shouldn't be mad at the Iraqi insurgents.

Bryant
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[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. What conditions would be acceptable to you personally?

[Dufaeth]

4. The UN coming to save us?

(please) :evilgrin:

[NNN0LHI]

5. China belongs to the UN

Would you like to have Chinese soldiers with machine guns standing on you street corner smoking and joking with the neighborhood ladies?

Don

[Dufaeth]

8. If we come to the end of the road at a fascist theocracy

and my fellow citizen's don't rise up with me, then I'll take whatever help I can get(via the UN) as in your example. But it would have to certainly get more exreme than it is now. All that said, I don't disagree with what I assume to be your point. People that stand up against invaders are not inherently villains.

If you had asked this question ten years ago my answer would be enthusiatic defiance against any invaders. Ten years ago, I literally thought what is happening in America now was impossible.

[bryant69]

7. It's hard to imagine such conditions

Possibly if it were a UN action?

How about another poll. If a foreign army invaded the united states would you

1. Fight them

2. Blow up your fellow citizens

3. Take the opportunity to settle old scores (by blowing up Republicans, say).

4. Do nothing.


Bryant

[Moody Bluz]

9. I would never take up arms against my country...

to fight alongside an invading army. No matter how noble their intentions. If things got so bad here that driving out the current government was the only option, I would take up arms with other partisans in revolution. But I would fight invaders, be they the Chinese, Danes, UN, even if it meant I would fight alongside Chimpy's Revolutionary Guard.

Maybe, if once a revolution was going and some other army came to our aid at our invitation, it would be different. The French helped us in our own Revolutionary War. But I would fight an invading army that arrived on our shores on it's own.

[Captain Hilts]

3. You put on your party smile and subvert them while they're not looking.

I know how to make a Molotov cocktail.

[wake.up.america]

6. Depends. Now if Cheney were to hire foreign mercenaries

to take over America, then bill the American public through Halliburton...

[xultar]

10. If they were coming to free Black folk I can't say I'd resist.

[genie_weenie]

11. Everyone likes to think they'd fight

but most would sulk and allow this massive military invasion to control them. Now, more likely is the selling off of America by the Repukes...


I was the first to vote to collaborate! I rule! I win the Gold! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

[Hubert Flottz]

12. If I knew I had to hand it back to people like Bush, I wouldn't fight.

People who torture people, are WRONG! PERIOD!

[NNN0LHI]

16. I agree Bush is pretty bad

But looking at this realistically I can still think of many other despotic regimes throughout the world that would be even worse than Bush. Much worse. I don't think I need to list them.

And as fucked up as things are here we do have the ability to change all that around if we play our cards right during the next two elections. And I think we have a pretty good chance of doing just that.

I personally wouldn't want to live anywhere else but the USA. I am ashamed at some of the stuff our government has done lately but I think we can turn that around. Call me an optimist.

And this is coming from someone who is pretty rough on America for some of the stuff done in our names. Thats because I believe the truth will set us free.

Don

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. That depends.

Is the situation more analagous to France in 1940 or Germany in 1945? And if the latter, is the occupying force more like the Western Allies or the Soviets?

[ck4829]

14. Depends

I wouldn't fight an occupation just to put people like Bush and his RW buddies back in power.

[Marie26]

15. I just can't see that happening

Even the UN couldn't take us on at this point.

[TahitiNut]

17. Well, "you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem."

"Democracy isn't a spectator sport." Democracy also cannot be imposed (or even achieved) from outside. This is the fundamental fallacy of the occupation of Iraq. People, in common, either take 100% control of their governance or they do not have a democracy. There is no middle ground.

If some foreign military power were to invade and occupy my nation, that force would remain in control of my governance until somebody else, internal or external, took over from that force. I'd rather it'd be The People who took over - for that is the sole path to democracy.

I would, therefore, join with whatever democratic resistance existed. Merely opposing such an occupying force is insufficient - when the opposition isn't a democratic opposition. History is littered with examples of exactly what I'm talking about.