I do admit I was being provocative with that statement, but honestly (and moving away from the main topic a bit), I dare anyone here to give me a believable explanation to why the US invaded Iraq!
I'm no one's representative, I'm just asking a few questions. We both live in free countries so I guess I have the right to ask as much as I want and to think whatever I want too.
I completely agree with you that given the chance Osama would have killed Obama in a split second, but just because Osama would do that Obama was supposed to do the same thing? I mean, Osama was a freakin' terrorist and Obama is the president of a democracy , are you telling me they're supposed to act the same way?
You realize that if shooting first and asking questions later becomes ok things like the bogside massacre will take place again and authorities will simply not be held accountable for anything they do, right?
I believe you're missing my point, I never said the victims' families didn't suffer or that they wouldn't do anything. I know that if a loved one of mine was killed by someone I'd try to get my hands on a gun asap and do something about it, but I'd be doing that passionately all in all I'd be murdering someone, what I'm saying is that I'm simpathy for the families of all the victims of 911 (and all other terrorism related tragedies for that matter) but that doesn't excuse a wrong action done by a government (which unlike victims isn't supposed to function in a passionate way).
There was a Brazilian man called Jean Charles de Menezes gunned down by the Scotland yard (they thought he was a terrorist...you know cuz he wasn't blue eyed or anything)...so I guess I can say my country has lost at least one life because of terror (or because of the incompetence of the Scotland Yard, lets stick to the first) , still I don't know what personal involvement with the issue has to do with the US policy being write or wrong.
Once upon the time there were two countries called USA and USSR, who decided to use Afghanistan as a freaking chess border after all who gives a damn it some brown people die, right? Then in an effort to win this battle at all costs (like always, because victory must come at ALL costs, right?) the US government gave weaponry and training to Afghans who wanted the soviets out, among them Bin Laden and his fellas...I'm just saying, things are no so cut and dry as you're trying to make them seem.
No one holds monopoly over history, I'm free to know any country's history and give whatever interpretation I want to it. And what I think America owes not to me but to the world is a good explanation to why they shot a an unarmed man, if that happened in US soil the US wouldn't owe anything to anyone but that happened outside of the USA so yeah your government does owe the world an explanation.
Does a debt being paid equals to not being grateful to them anymore? I honestly don't know why Irish and Americans can't simple agree that they helped each other mutually and be grateful with one another.
I don't think I was being silly, I just think US should be grateful to the Irish while you don't think so because the US gave them the right of immigration. That's a matter of opinion I guess.
You're wrong, I like the USA and btw I'm very fond of Switzerland as well but don't expect me to applaud the Swiss government if they ever start killing people at their sheer will (naah, Switzerland would never do that! )
I personally feel that a discussion about economy has no place here since this has nothing to do with Bin Laden, however you should know your country has the biggest external debt on the planet before you start bashing other countries economies and implying that the whole world depends on you while you don't need the rest of the world for anything.
Oh how nice, they are giving Brazil a few million dollars to buy computers...sweet...but you could have also mentioned that the USA is the country with the largest external debt right now owing the rest of the world almost 14 billion dollars while Brazil barely reaches 310 million dollars in external debt, so I guess even though we kindly accept a few donations from our American friends it seems that you guys have been borrowing way much more money (you guys owe close to 100% of your GDP).
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Osama bin Laden was EXECUTE by US forces illegally
Very interesting, but if the US is so altruistic and did it for that (and not for oil money of course) why did they wait a few decades to do it?