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Originally posted by Xcathdra
Actually it does matter how he came to power because the implication is the US put him their, which we did not. Islamic extremists who like to spread hate did that when they killed Sadat.
The US does not fear Iran in a military sense. We fear Iran in the same manner we fear a mentally disbaled sociopath who finds a loaded rifle and car keys in the ignition.
Will you smell that same fear when the opressed people turn against the Imams and extremists Islam? Or is it only permissable to "bring down an oppresive regime" but not an opressive religion?
I see that brainwashing is kicking in again, prohibiting you from independant research and information while toting the party line of evil great satan. SO you have issues with Arab Governments who hav friendly relations with the US, refering to them as oppresive.
Intresting.
Does your view also include Iran, Syria and Yemen as oppresive regimes? Or is your defintion of oppresive only consist of anything that has relations with the US?
The Presence in Saudi Arabia occured because Huseein invaded Kuwait and looked south. We were invited in, so you can take that issue up with the Saudi Government. Iraq was invaded because they had a wmd program, as wikileaks recently released the info that supported those claims.
Afghanistan was invaded for refusing to turn over the people responsible for the death of over 3000 citizens from different countries, including innocent people from the Middle East. Even if we exclude 9/11, we still have the emabssy bombings in Africa, the attack on the USS Cole, the WTC attack in 1993, the targeting of americans in Europe during the cold war, the suicide bombings at our barracks in Lebanon.
And its easy to make an argument against regimes you dont agree with by labeling them as puppets of the United States. This is my point and thank you for proving it. Anytime something occurs that arabs / muslims dont like, all they do is attach the US to the equation, whether its true or not, in an effort to defelct anger.
If the Saudi Government ever told the US to leave, we would comply, as we have done with other countries where we had a presence. The term lacking in your argument is called responsibility. All we have to do is look at PressTV and we can see how omitting information skews the articles point to blame the US.
So again, extremists fear a democratic system that allows more than one idea. If Egypt were truely our puppot as you claim, we would not have suspended aid to them and call for the egyptian government to respect the voice of the people.
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As a side note, to go back to the statement about tired of US puppet regimes. In all of the media coverage I have seen, can you please point out where any protesters are burning America, or even Israeli flags? If they are sick of the US, wheres the anger towards the US? Wouldnt the protesters be going nuts over our involvement, instead of going after the Egyptian Government?
Not one American Flag bunred...
Not one Israeli Flag burned...
I think you may have misread the intentions and goals of the Egyptian people.edit on 29-1-2011 by Xcathdra because: (no reason given)edit on 29-1-2011 by Xcathdra because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by reatarded
I never said the US put him there, I said he is a US puppet. I don't want to go in to history because I know the discussion will get more complicated and will force us to lose focus. Anyways, Sadat was the Shah of Iran's best friend, the Shah used to call him his 'dear brother'. Puppets usually have good relations with puppets.
Originally posted by reatarded
US fears Iran not because of its military, yes we know, but we also don't suck in the "wipe out Israel" propaganda, and the sociopath description of their leaders.
Originally posted by reatarded
US fears Iran because other oppressed nations might pursue a similar course. They tried to isolate Iran for that specific reason.
Originally posted by Xcathdra
Will you smell that same fear when the opressed people turn against the Imams and extremists Islam? Or is it only permissable to "bring down an oppresive regime" but not an opressive religion?
Originally posted by reatarded
Let's stick to Mubarak for a second here thanks.
Originally posted by reatarded
You call them Allies of US, I call them puppets. It seems we live in two different worlds. Nice to see, but nothing new.
Iran, Syria and Yemen. Yup, why not, let's add US, UK and Australia in the lot.
Originally posted by reatarded
Yes, like I said, all of them invited Americans to invade and occupy them, why are you acting so defensive. I simply asked you to write a letter to your president to bring your fellow country men home from Saudi Arabia. If you agree that Saudi Arabia has an oppressive regime, a torturous regime, a murderous regime, then bring your soldiers homes and let the oppressed people deal with the oppressor.
Originally posted by reatarded
Are you so defensive because you know your country is wrongfully supporting oppressive fascist dictators? That is from your point of view, from my point of view, your country supports and installs oppressive fascist puppet dictators. See the difference?
Originally posted by reatarded
Ofcourse you would leave an occupied nation if the puppet tolds you to leave, that is the beauty of the puppet deception. You tell your puppet to tell you to leave, then you leave, but obviously if your puppet tells you to leave without your permission it is either assassination, coup, or worse blockade and a proxy war.
Originally posted by reatarded
What happened to Japan when they ask the US to leave? Someone resigned, who was it?
Originally posted by reatarded
They already came after you, don't forget, Al-Zawahiri is from Egypt.
Originally posted by reatarded
They went after the puppet master first
Originally posted by reatarded
remember 9/11 + they are still fighting in Afghanistan, then again not many believe Muslims were behind 9/11.
Originally posted by reatarded
Anyways, the US is in a brink of collapse therefore it is obvious that now is the best time to go after the puppets. It is working isn't it? Think about the collapse of USSR and what happened to eastern Europe.
Originally posted by Xcathdra
Sadat was assasinated because of his peace plan with Israel. He was assasinated by Islamic Extremists and other Arab Countries suspended Egypt from the Arab League because he wanted peace. When he was assasinated Mubarik became president, not because of the US, but because of the Egyptian people.
Ignoring factual historical information because it does not support your argument is cheap. Its history, for better or worse. The Us has the same issue with History as well, so I will grant you that.
We do not fear Iran... We fear the Government of Iran and the irrational decisions that come from them. As I said, its the same fear as if a mentally disturbed person finds a rifle and the car keys in the ignition. Out of curisoity, since you brought up not buying into the Iranian Propoganda, how come you or anyone else does not try to counter it with factual information?
Is it because you dont care they are passing omissions and lies, or is it because of who those omissions and lies are directed at?
No, we have isolated Iran because of their refusal to comply with their UN obligations on their nuclear program. The resolutions that the security council have passed (which includes to major supporters of Iran - China and Russia) called for Iran to abide by the agreement. The very first resolution specifically states the moment Iran complies, the resolutions / sanctions are dropped.
Its a valid question, especially when dealing with Arab Nations. Islam is a religion in addition to governing document for peoples lives and Government functions. In the Arab world Islam and Government go hand in hand, and is source for laws and policy (Foreign and Domestic).
Will you smell that same fear when people rise up against the opressive interpretation of Islam?
I will refer you back to Egypt and whats going on now. The protests involve people of all groups, all ages and shockingly women, covered and uncovered. They arent demanding Islamic Rule. They are demanding freedom and the right to choose their leaders, be able to expresses their ideas and thoughts and to hold the Government accountible to the people.
No American Flags burned
No Israeli Flags burned
This is not an uprising against an American Puppet, but an uprising to demand freedom. Freedom of choice, worship, government, religion etc etc etc. I really think those who are seeing this as an uprising against an American Puppet are missing the key factors of whats going on over there.
US, UK, AUS - All countries with freedom of speech, religion, expression, affiliation, politics. Presumed innocent until proven guilty, A Government elected by the people, and a Gvoernment able to be thrown out of office by the people. All countries whose Government derives its authority and legitimacy from the consent of the people.
Iran, Syria, Yemen - Not so much.
We will call the terminology between puppet and ally as a draw, as you make a good point about perception of friend and foe based on beliefs intrests and politics.
Lol thats funny. Is that really what you believe about an American Presence in the Middle East? There is absolutely no need to write the US President and ask to remove American troops from Saudi Arabia, because we have already done that. Actually 7,000 troops were stationed in Saudi after the 1st gulf war. In 2003 we removed our presence in Saudi Arabia.
GlobalSecurity.org - American presence in Saudi Arabia
US Military deployed to Middle East - Wikipedia
US Withdrawal from Saudi Arabia
Whats left in Saudi Arabia? - 400 personell 64th Air Expeditionary Group at Eskan Village.
So yeah, going back to your statement, whats stopping the people of Saudi Arabia from holding their Government accountible as you say? We have no ground troops, and our airwing wont intefere since its an internal matter of Saudi Arabia.
This by the way is what I am talking about when I say please do research when making an argument. By the way just a few of the reasons cited for our departure of Saudi Arabia? The people there were upset about an American Presence in a country that contained 2 of Islams holiest sites.
We left not because of the Saudi Government, but because of the Saudi people in an attempt to respect the religion.
Defensive? not really no. Irritated though? sure. Why? because of the inability of people to do research when making claims or assigning blame when the facts dont support the argument.
No, i dont really see your point. Whether we supprt a Middle East Government who opresses their own people and drags people out of their beds in the middle of the night for accepting more than one idea, is no different than the governments of Syria, Iran or Hamas doing the same thing.
So its not ok for an Arab government to kill people if they are allies of the US, but it is ok for an Arab Government to kill people when they arent allies of the US? Is that what you are saying?
For someone who wants to ignore historical events, you seem to have no problem bringing them up here when you need the argument assistance. Funny how that works
If you are referring to the American presence in Japan now, do some more research about our plans to shift people around to meet the requirements of the local government, including Okinowa.
If you are referring to post WWII - We did not have enough military personell present to have a military government in place there, so we used the Japanese government and worked through them. When they rewrote their constitution, the Japanese added in the military restrictions on their own.
In addition to Japan and Europe, the US helped rebuild those shattered countries and economies. Today they are some of our closest and strongest allies. So strong in fact that we have no problems when we are criticised or a disagreement occurs. That happens between friends.
If you are referring to something else entirely, let me know.
Way to split hairs their boss. Egypt did not come after us, and neither did Saudi Arabia. Extremists groups whose members are citizens of those countries attacked.
Well, no they did not. They targeted civilians who had nothing to do with US foreign policy decisions, military deployment or anything of the sort. 2 attacks on the WTC, 2 attacks on our embassies in Africa, multiple airline hijackings during the 80's including the execution of a US naval member on one of those hijacked airlines, who was executed only because he was military, albeit it in civilian clothes on leave.
Yup we sure are... I dont think muslims were behind 9/11 either. I do think extremists who hijacked Islam, who execute people for trumped up reasons, who slit the throats of aid workers, and who call on the brainwashed or outright blackmailed people to carry out suicide attacks.
We have our fair share of internal problems. I dont think we are anywhere near the verge of collaps though. We are having financial problems because we thought it better to try to help other countries with aid (military / monetary / diplomatic / infrastructure / etc).
If we have an economic collapse I would rather it be because we attempted to do right in the world and help others out (regardless of aftermath) than have a collapse from something else. Just like other moments in our countries history, we will face the darkness and come out of it still standing.
As far as looking at what happened to the USSR, again you may want to do research there. Russia is back in the game with a devleoping economy. The countries who made up the USSR are also growing, and some have reestablished ties with Moscow.
But hey if we want to look at history - Check out what happened to the Persian Empire. The Ottoman Empire, The Sumerians, Babylonians, Median, Caldean, Lydian, etc etc etc empires from the Middle East.
Intresting view point though.
Thanks.edit on 30-1-2011 by Xcathdra because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by reatarded
Afraid that your puppet is gone, and afraid of another Iran.
I can smell the fear in you.
One question ... Do you think it is time for US troops to withdrawal from Saudi Arabia .