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09-13-2009 11:38 AM 		Reply to: Message 32 by cavediver
09-13-2009 10:13 AM

To be fair, you yanks are still rank amateurs at this. It will be a while before you can attain the masterful levels of shit-stirring us Brits perfected over a century ago.
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Agreed. Playing the 'we invaded them, no they started terrorist attacks before we invaded them' game just takes us back further and further. Before too long we're talking about the UK invasion of Iraq in the 1940s (which ended in military occupation and a short lived regime change) and then we carry on back to Ottomans and Mamluks and the brazen theft of Kuwait from them by...oh yeah...us.
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They don't call it a circle of violence for nothing...
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09-14-2009 1:43 AM 		Reply to: Message 35 by Hyroglyphx
09-13-2009 11:50 AM

Imagine applying that rationale to WWII. Allied Forces in WWII should have never sent in the Royal or US Air Force in to Germany. I suppose they should have waited for more Blitzkrieg attacks by the Luftwaffe....So what kind of strategy would you suggest, if not an offensive strategy?
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Iraq was bombing us? I missed that.
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I didn't say that war is avoidable, I implied that it was short sighted to merely stop the chain of blame at 'terrorist attacks over the past few decades'. Just like it would be short-sighted to lay the blame for WWII at Germany's feet rather than examining things like the Treaty of Versailles.
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