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You have to be able to judge actions and be able to judge right from wrong. That is why we have laws, standards, and judges. Now over time, the worlds standards have changed, but no one condones the mass slaughter of people. Religious extremists are not balanced people who have the capability to discern right from wrong. And yes, we do have the right to judge that.
People always like to try to knock Americans down a peg or three.
For instance, the French have vilified us for thirty years. It was the French who got us into Vietnam. The French fucked around with Africa and India for longer than anybody. They want to call us imperialists? What were Fench doing supporting Iraq and supplying them with materials? The point is, no country is perfect. But we as Americans try to make a difference. One way we try to help is to support democracy worldwide. There are no democratic governments in the Middle East except for Turkey and Israel. That is why we are involved over there. There is no free press in the Middle East. That is why we are there. Half of their population is in slavery(women). That is why we are over there. There is no religious freedom. That is why we are over there. We may get distracted by dictators and terrorists and oil occasionally, but our true reason for being in the Middle East, our guiding doctrine is Democracy. We started working in the Middle East when Communist Russia started manipulating governments in the Middle East. Nobody blames Russia for the shitstorm that they started forty years ago.
If countries in the Middle East had democracies, we would not be over there. We also would not have terrorists bothering us either. But when power is concentrated in the hands of a few religious nutjobs, they will hate us for what we are, and what they are not.
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