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Originally Posted by smooth
Detroit wasn't closed down by Italian police, however.
Are you not catching that he is emphasizing the foreign police element?
Or does it not matter to you? Or...?
Because it sounds from your post that it wouldn't matter to you who is doing the policing, whereas for him it's a different context when one's own police are doing the policing. Yet, when it's a foreign police force, it feels like one's sovereignty is being usurped. Very frustrating.
On top of that, "a post-9/11 world" is a US construct. The rest of the developed world has already been acutely aware of modern terrorism for decades. We've been slow to the table, but certainly latin america and the Pope aren't acting all differently now that "9/11" happened. That point seems really unaware of things that have been happening in and around those countries for a very long time?
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On the first part, we didn't just come in and do this, we talked with their government, said what we wanted to be able to do, they said we were allowed to police ourselves and shut down what was necessary. Blame the guat government not ours, for allowing us to do this.
Second part, Just because they were unaware, and by unaware, I mean lucky it wasn't about them, and apathetic because of that fact. Doesn't mean that it has nothing to do with them. Simply because murder is happening just down the block, doesn't give you the right to pretend ignorance of it.