jar writes:
When all you have is a family goat, would you not want to protect it?
Yes, but if i lived in a nation that was largely poor and had offers of assistance from a nation that was quite wealthy, I may decide that compromise is better than futility.
jar writes:
If your nation was invaded, would you not want to try to expel the invaders?
Depends how they invaded, who they were after, and if they were rebuilding public roads and bridges and building water desalination plants and electrical grids. I could care less if they were of my religion as long as they didn't hurt me or my family. Why should these poor people not want to have a consensus with us? I suspect that their fundamentalist religion gets in the way of it...which proves that it is not only we who are crazy.