Alright, so today I took it upon myself to do a little project of my own. I went to a pro-health care anti-war protest, and a Tea Party.
First, the anti-war pro-health care rally covered several topics with its signs and songs:
Respect our Constitution - Do not torture people or spy on our citizens.
Leave Afghanistan - I was talking to a Vietnam veteran who was against the war in Afghanistan who said we should just leave Afghanistan like we left Vietnam.
Sir, 2 million people were slaughtered by the North Vietnamese when we left Vietnam. I hope you do not wish this fate upon the Iraqi people.
Fund health care, affordable housing, instead of the military in order to give us real security - Common sense alert. Without the military a few guys, notably the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, we would be royally screwed. That, and any nation that would like a slice of our country would have not only an open border to invade across, but no resistance once they did. If they wish for money for health care and the military, with waste overall removed, they sound very similar to the Tea Party protest.
At the Tea Party, the core themes were:
Spend less overall to tax less overall - We can buy our own cars, we don't need a government stimulus check given to us from our own taxes to pay for it, just for you to not take it from us in taxes in the first place.
Respect our Constitution - Do not spy on our citizens, do not expand government beyond its original purpose, and have every person in the administration face a congressional hearing to be appointed.
This was the core of the Tea Party.
You see, the liberal Americans and conservative Americans are divided by where government's role in charity is. Liberals want the government to tell us to feed those in need and control the mechanisms through which that happens. Conservatives believe it is our responsibility as neighbors, Americans, and believers in God to feed those in need and to do so as individuals, friends, and families, not government workers.
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So, if the US leaves Afghanistan, millions of Iraqis will be slaughtered? Huh? Logic like that makes it very hard to take your subjective opinion seriously. And what makes you think the results would be the same as Vietnam in Iraq if the US left that conflict? Again your logic is unscrutable. There is not a powerful communist government waiting to fill the void should the US presence leave. Which of the muliti-factional members of the Iraqi population are most at risk? Why continue to spend billions of dollars on a money pit like Iraq when there are unemployed, hungry people in this country that could use the benefit of the US investing in its own infrastructure? Again, your partisanship makes it very difficult to accept anything you have to say. Go Nascar! Yeeeehaaaw!
That was indeed a typo. I was still going on what I had in my head from the past 8 years of leaving Iraq where the same principle applies. As the Taliban and Baloch ethnic group do not get along and would continue a civil war, Iraq would have fallen into a civil war with Kurds, Shi'ites, and Sunnis.
Communism is not the threat in Iraq and Afghanistan, only radical Islam. If not radicalism, then Al Sadr, or some form of him, would rise to become the next Saddam and lead through force and bloodshed.
As for Afghanistan, we know the constant horrors people lived under for twenty years with the Soviets, Taliban, and later the Taliban and Northern Alliance fighting each other. Pakistan signed treaties of peace with the Taliban, executions and battles for more territory followed.
As for which group in Iraq are most at risk, all of them are. We have always had unemployed and hungry people in this country. Does this mean you opposed us fighting in WW2 after Pearl Harbor because we were still in a Great Depression with hungry and homeless and unemployed in this country? Your logic here is off the rails.
As for my partisanship, I am an independant. Yes I lean conservative, which means I am on the side of most, but not all, Republicans.
As for NASCAR, off topic but I agree, go NASCAR! I will point out however that this is not the Dukes of Hazzard.
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