Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
That is way too slippery of a slope and I suspect you know it. I'm not sure we would have any allies in the world with that criteria. Not that it's ok to murder citizens, it's not, but direct military action should be based on a clear threat to US citizens. No problems letting Europe pick up a bigger tab, that means we should be stepping out of other country's conflicts. It seems like some people have been frothing at the mouth for decades to invade Iran and start a war with it. Not for any specific action or threat from Iran, but for similar reasons to Vietnam where some people decide that other people in a different country should not be living the way that they are. One of the reasons I believe that our military actions have to be based on clear and real threats, not "nuke program was obliterated last year"-reasons, is because 30 years down the road we'll be dealing with the entire new generation of terrorists we spawned from these actions. I believe that when we have morally-clear actions/threats/objectives, that is much less likely.
ahhh, the good ole terrorist breeding myth. How come the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history occurred after basically 10 years of foreign isolationism and orchestrated from the same people who we helped and support in their fight against the Russians? Why aren't we seeing continued terrorist attacks from the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan? Were Germans orchestrating terrorist attacks against the U.S. in the 50s and 60s? What about the Japanese? Still waiting for the first Vietnamese terrorist attack.