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Author Topic: Newt: "We're not prepaired to be ruthless enough to force them (Afghans) to change" [Locked]
TheNinthSeal  1 star
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Registered: 2012-2-21 07:57:37
Sith_Mauler posted:

The afghans are descendants of every invading army that has marched through that part of asia since the beginning of time.

These people are born and breed to fight.



That is not how evolution works. No amount of militarism in my father will NATURALLY make me more violent or better at it. This is just a retarded 'them and us' mentality. If any of those people were swapped with you at birth, they would be doing and thinking all the same things that you do and think. THAT is why it is a stupid assumption. You open a history book that has a few paragraphs on a culture and you think you understand them in an historical AND psychological context? Impressive. I bet you found a history book that has equal input from everyone involved so it can be a fair and balanced view on all these cultures with no motive to tell a story, just because I have never seen or heard of one doesn't mean they don't exist
TheNinthSeal  1 star
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GrimTempest posted:

BritonGuy posted:

Because being ruthless worked so well for the Russians.



the russians were a communist government and hurt their own people. no linear comparison there unless you want to discuss progressive liberals



Looks like the propaganda on both sides worked pretty well on you. Not communists. State capitalists. They had reason to say they were communist (we are trying to help the PEOPLE) and we had reasons to say they were communist (omg stop pushing for workers rights you are being just like them) but they never were communist in anything but name.
Kanga_Roo  2 stars
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Registered: 2002-2-26 12:58:17
wrong thread lol

 

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GrimTempest posted:

We can't just leave them as they are because they believe infidels need to die, they have no tolerance for people not of their religion. Their religion has indoctrinated them to this belief. We're not talking about muslims here in the west who have adapted to a more tolerant mindset, we're talking about poor people who have nothing but their religion. They will always hate us simply because we have more power to shape this world than they do. Our way of life itself is an offense to their sensibilities and their god gives them permission to take and do what they want because they are the chosen people in their minds.

So yes, we do need to either change them or isolate them, the only other alternative is wipe them out. We have the right to do either because we're defending ourselves and our way of life just as they are. The strong win, the weak fade into history and thats the way of the world. If anyone seriously thinks that simply withdrawing from the region and ignoring them will prompt them to do the same to us you have a very weak grasp on reality. They live by religious law and kill their women for showing too much skin or meeting the gaze of men because it invokes lust in the men...they blame the women for this and kill them or beat/whip/stone them. They aren't free to believe in what gods they want, their religious government kills people who stray from their religion. This is the people you want to defend or claim should not be changed? Their way of life and belief system is a threat to anyone that comes into contact with it.


If they stay in their country, you have no right to anything.

You only have a right if they export violence, which goes to why you should defend your own borders.

Now, do I like their culture of ignorance? No, but you can't interject yourself into their society and "change them", it doesn't work. It is the same as when you tell your kids "what to do" and they ignore everything you say.

The only way you can "change them" is by allowing them to see how much better things are in other parts of the world. Remember, Christians were just as backwardly retarded as Muslims in some countries are today and the only reason that changed is because America didn't have set religious laws, allowing people to follow their own faith in the way they believed. Over time, even the extremists were nullified. Fire and Brimstone brain washing doesn't work well in a free society.

 

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GrimTempest  3 stars
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just to point this out...but i never claimed that i thought changing them was the best solution. i just agreed with newts comment that we aren't ruthless enough to do it. which to me means we shouldn't be as invested there as we are, its a political game and nothing more at the state its in now. if they're going to change they have to do it themselves as their culture changes and that takes decades if not centuries. religion has alot of inertia where change is concerned.

we should be doing everything we can to keep them isolated and change them through less warlike means. war only baits them into crazier actions.

 

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Allmightybob_MLF  2 stars
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Registered: 2004-3-22 23:15:57
Rhodoman posted:

I think we should just park a carrier group off their coast and patrol the entire country with drones.


If we see poppies being cultivated -- boom.


If we see terrorist training camps -- boom.


Until they behave.


Rho



Rhodoman posted:

1 - No, leave them right where they are.


2 - Acceptable = not exporting terrorists with explosives to our shores.


Stop purposely misunderstanding.


Rho



Purposely misunderstanding? How about I go over to your house and child then -- boom.


Until you behave.


Rho.


No, I understand you quite well.
notmforce2k  4 stars
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Registered: 2011-10-9 09:37:34
Holy ****.

Anyone who thinks we can be "ruthless enough to force them to change" should not be the leader of a country. Implying that it's right or just to force change on a region of the world (in this day and age) is insane. That's the idiotic demeanor that led us into Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place.
Fozzie_Bear  4 stars
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Registered: 2001-12-20 01:43:43
I agree. irradiate the agricultural land and leave.

its the only clear option

 

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Aerlinthian  4 stars
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Registered: 2001-5-7 23:53:38
Conservatives don't know what it means to be conservative anymore and Liberals don't know what it means to be liberal.


And people think I'm kidding when I say I want to move out of the US and not look back.
Kanga_Roo  2 stars
Posts: 439
Registered: 2002-2-26 12:58:17
Aerlinthian posted:

Conservatives don't know what it means to be conservative anymore and Liberals don't know what it means to be liberal.


And people think I'm kidding when I say I want to move out of the US and not look back.



Your problem is that you want to label everyone and then have them act according to the labels you have ascribed to them. Liberal and Conservative were never more than theoretical points of view. The world is considerably more complex. People are more complex.

If you can find a more suitable country than the US then go with it. It's a free market of countries you can choose. By staying here you have chosen. I don't think you are kidding I just think you lack the resolve to make a decision and live with the consequences.

 

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