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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
I personally believe
1. Afghanistan SHOULD have been invaded. Taliban claimed responsibility for 9/11 attack.
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You can't really say a sovereign nation should be invaded because of a specific group of people residing there. That's like saying the US "deserves to be invaded" by muslim countries because they are against gays and the US harbours them.
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Originally Posted by Bourke
You can be in support of the soldiers and not in support of war. Anyone willing to give their time, efforts and potentially their life to their country should be supported.
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There's a certain part of your statement here i've given a bit of thought right now. There can be more then one interpretation of "to their country". By going to afganistan, they are giving thier time, effort, and lives "to thier country" in the sense of (for lack of better words here) "availability to do what the government of america see's fit for them to do". With that interpretation, I do agree. However, the other interpretation of "to their country" would be that they are somehow risking their lives "to protect the freedoms or serve the people of their country", for which I would disagree. Invading any country is in no way serving the people of their own country. *DEFENDING* your own country from attack is.