DumberDrummer

Its true that there are wackos who perform suicide bombers, but what regular arabic person would want to be lumped with them cause their religions name is the same?

Its like if every one in the US judged christians based on that dude who killed a bunch of people because he thought he was doing gods will.

Everytime you walked down the street, have some atheist come up to you and scream in your face about how you are a violent murderer, even though christianity teaches love towards others.

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SInce WW2 where have all of major conflicts been? Korea, Viet Nam/Cambodia.Laos, Middle East. Add in minor skirmishes in Africa and Afganistan. Any of these places practice the same religion as the majority of the US? We can say we didn't go to war over religion but when you take a step back it might be hard to prove that. Is it this difference and the cultural differences that go a long with them that imake us willing to wage these wars? If these places had been "like us" would we had behaved the same way? Makes me wonder.

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DumberDrummer

Perhaps the causality here is a bit weird, I dunno.

Those with majority religions like we have here seem to tend towards democratic governments, maybe?

all the people on the otherside of the globe think differently about God, et al, than the US. Perhaps we really have no choice but to invade countries who think differently.

We don't have a lot of choices otherwise.. Britain, possibly Canada or South America? Our allies for the most part.

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GiancarloC

It had more to do with geo-political reasons, not religion that we went to war with those countries in this past century.

40sondacurb

You're not going to believe this GiancarloC, but I agree.

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yustr

No doubt thats' what we think now. And that's what we want to believe now - for if anyone ever came out and said I'm willing ot go to war for what I thinkis right - provided the opponent is some other religion - he'd get thrown out on his ear. After all we're not a bunch of Dark Age barbarians. But how will history see it? The 30 Year's War in Europe was also fought for geo-political purposes but is now remembered as basically a struggle between the Catholics and the Lutherans.

It's a good exercise to try to remove yourself from the present and see how your actions might look through the lens of time. (Works in your personal life also.)

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GiancarloC

I totally disagree. The reasons were geopolitical, and power. Hitler for example started a war for domination not religion. The North vietnamese were starting a war to take South Vietnam, a more powerful economic center then their own.