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In reply to the discussion: The single most powerful moral statement the USA could make against Putin moving into Crimea [View all]Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)63. Personally speaking.
Not because of Putin, not to increase our global image, not for revenge of a presidential election decided by the courts, not for anti-corporatism, not for the left or the right, not for the fallen (ours and theirs), not for the any religious reasons; but because it is the right thing to do. We are, or at least should be, better than we have been acting lately.
The European religious crusades were a bust a thousand years ago. The wars for business reasons are the modern version of the religious crusade, and will end just as badly.
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The single most powerful moral statement the USA could make against Putin moving into Crimea [View all]
Fumesucker
Mar 2014
OP
"No way, Jose. Smirk." - George AWOL Bush (R) & Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney (R)
Berlum
Mar 2014
#1
WTF? Was there genocide happening in Ukraine like there was under Milosevic?
KittyWampus
Mar 2014
#30
It's always easier to see the mote in another's eye than the beam in your own
Fumesucker
Mar 2014
#13
And why is it that states are not allowed to invade, conquor or annex other states?
Fumesucker
Mar 2014
#28
they're caused by war. the Socratic method is tedious, got anything else?nt
geek tragedy
Mar 2014
#76
No, the problem is that people let *their* *own* politicians off the hook for this kind of thing
Fumesucker
Mar 2014
#21
Putin = Take the food away from a cub in front of a Mother Bear (Russia)....
Junkdrawer
Mar 2014
#36
Except that India is strengthening their military ties to the US to counter China
hack89
Mar 2014
#45
And don't forget the 23 nations that have backed away from the US dollar. n/t
truedelphi
Mar 2014
#61
That would require an attorney genreral and a president with high moral standards.
Hoppy
Mar 2014
#42