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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
The "Arab spring" had me laughing so loud I fell off my chair. We selectively pick and choose democracies and dictatorships.
Look at Saddam, when he was happily gassing Iranians he Americans backed him up and kept the UN from sticking their nose in. Forward 20 years and he's suddenly the next Hitler.
Gaddafi goes postal on his own people and the RAF and French Air Force go riding to te rescue. That Syrian nutjob does the same thing and all we do is wag our fingers and express our displeasure.
Egypt was a big ally of America under their dictatorship, now they have gotten rid of the guy they are kicking off with Israel again.
The people of Bahrain rise up, the Saudis next door send their tanks in and put them down. Now we have doctors who helped the protestors up on jumped up charges while the west looks the other way.
I am sick and bloody tired of western politicians talking about human rights, they don't give a damn about human rights.
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This seems to be the case, we only care about shit if it can make us money. It's laughable. It reminds me of the holiday season, you know the one time a year it's popular and fun to give a damn about the needy.
This has nothing to do with helping the poor oppressed people. You want to go help people look within your on borders before you go on military adventure in a foreign country. Oh yeah, but there no money in that....... what's the point.
