VoidMain, you say a lot of stuff i agree with, however i think your extrapolations are very wide of the mark. what makes you think Saddam and Bin Laden are in contact or would hand nukes over to each other? the likelihood that they are both muslims? that is the sort of attitude that
causes these little fracas' in the first place!
also, you called wild jester a terrorist. that is fucking out of order. sorry for swearing at you VoidMain, i have a lot of respect for you but it is exactly this attitude that makes the rest of the world, rightly or wrongly, suspect of the USA.
USA is very big on seeing terrorists and communists and many other ists that are ready to rise up and threaten society, or democracy or even just to infiltrate our childrens minds. i suppose you are too young (even though you
are older than i
) to remember the draconian Comics Code Authority in the fifties, and for that matter the ridiculous McCarthy scapegoating trials, designed to make the US seem like it was doing something and in the process ruining the careers and lives of many of its best people.
The US is too concerned with its own chest puffing to actually give a shit about things really should be done. the US has forgotten what "justice" means. After the horrible planes disaster last year, i heard a lot of stories about US citizens. many people offensively emailed me multiple copies of emails designed to let me know that the US would not stand for this sort of treatment. forgive me, but if i want to know that i will find out for myself.
One of these emails told the story of an american guy on a plane later in September going on an international flight somewhere on the other side of the world from the US. Another US guy got up in the aisle before the plane took off and asked all the other US citizens to stand up. After a bit of coaxing, another nine did. For the whole of the journey, these 10 Americans would escort anybody who got up out of their seat to wherever they were going, the toilet, whatever. The email claimed that this made the atmosphere in the plane more relaxing.
This story made me very angry and epitomises the problem. Yes i agree that the US has rarely used its nukes in a stupid way, especially compared with some other nations. Yes i agree that Iraq
could do some nasty things with nukes. This is no reason for America to assume the moral high ground. This "America as the world's guardian" does not work unless we assume that we can trust america implicitly. and we cannot. we do not agree with many of its opinions, however it has the most powerful army and the loudest politicians, so what can you do?
the only reason that america thinks it should be the policeman of the world is because it had its nukes first. This is unacceptable.
As i say, no offence to VoidMain, but that is the reality as i see it.
Go on, call me a terrorist, it will only weaken your argument in my opinion.