By Zach Foster, resident writer of A
Blogging Spot
Al Qaeda certainly needed to be punished
for the horrific 9/11 terror attacks and much of the world agreed, but having
hundreds of military bases in over a hundred countries didn’t stop the attacks
from occurring. Furthermore, invading
Iraq plus getting involved in Libya, Syria, and central Africa isn’t doing much
for national security. Both parties in government like spending more money than
they take in and both started or got our country involved in wars we didn’t
need to fight. Anyone is free to ask any Iraq or Afghan war veteran if he or
she really think the Iraqis or Afghans will figure out and embrace democracy
and human rights anytime soon, and the response will most likely be “No.”
Many neoconservatives attempt to justify
the Iraq and Afghan wars (as well as the African sideshows) by comparing them
to the First Barbary War or to World War II.
Their logic is faulty at best as the nature of the centuries-past
conflict differs greatly. The First
Barbary War (1801-1805) was initiated after semi-independent sultans of the
Ottoman Empire’s buffer states had been authorizing pirates to kidnap…
Source: A Blogging Spot
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