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They don't threaten your freedom, but they threaten the freedom of the people who live in the Middle East
by dagav 6y ago
They don't threaten your freedom, but they threaten the freedom of the people who live in the Middle East
- InitialLastName 6y agoI don't see them drone striking and assassinating the Emirs and Saudi royalty who are responsible much of the "freedom-limiting" activity in the Middle East though.
- dagav 6y agoDo you realize you're defending al-Qaeda?
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y agoThe terms of "terrorism" and "Al-Qaeda" are so plastic, that no one is going to really pay attention to when the government slings them around. And let's note that the financial nerve center of AQ is the House of Saud, whom we've seemed to avoid Western wrath since 9/11.
- AnHonestComment 6y agoThey’re not making principled arguments — they’re fashionably bullshitting to signal their virtue.
- InitialLastName 6y agoI'm proposing talking about these issues in terms of the actual (largely commercial, on both sides) interests involved, instead of amorphous terms like "protecting our freedom". In the name of protecting "freedom", the United States has propped up totalitarian and brutally oppressive regimes in countries all over the world. Maybe it's time they start using a different buzzword to describe their goals. IF the US does that right, they might even get the chance to stop arming, training and empowering the next generation's enemies.
- liability 6y agoWhy should we believe that? Why do you believe that? Who is to say the people targeted have affiliations to the organizations claimed? The US federal government has little credibility. Usually we demand they back up their assertions in court before they're believed. Courts exist because we know governments lie, so how can you be so confident here?
- colinmhayes 6y agoYou can watch frontlines on the Syria conflict if you don't believe the government.
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- lm28469 6y agoIt's all about money and power, nothing about freedom, neither yours or theirs