God Help America

I posted the following question on Yahoo Answers, exactly as it is here, complete with typos that I've only just noticed!:


"Whny not a pre-emptive strike ON the USA?

The USA, apparently, believes it has the right to invade countries that might have caused it military or terrorist problems if left unchecked.

It assumes the right to "strike first" to prevent harm to the homeland

in that case, would it object if other countries, who (no doubt with just as much if not even more justification) believe that the USA will pose a future threat to their homelands, were to invade the USA before it had the chance to do it to them?

After all, there's an old saying about sauce for the goose ..."

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there were eight answers: one of them was this, exactly as i t apprears here:

"AMERICA HAS NEVER STARTED A WAR...and THEY HAVE NEVER OCCUPIED A COUNTRY OR TAKEN ANYTHING FROM IT!

WE WERE INVADED if you don't REMEMBER"

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to which my response was:

"no need to shout! and I wonder what books you learned your history from?!"

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Can you believe that that got voted as "Best Answer" by two people? [if it were voted in by one, I'd suspect the person who wrote that answer voted for himself]

but is that really what people are taught in the USA? in school, in the media, on tv and radio and newspapers? is that The Great American Version Of History?

if that's the case, then I can only repeat the comment I made on the YA page at the time -"if that's the best answer, then God Help America!"

And God help the rest of the world, cos it's dickheads like this that elect the ones who have their fingers on the biggest nuclear trigger in the world!


here's the page url: dunno if it'll work on click, or if you'll need to copy and paste it into the address box:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnhsEd3mpda2y5.AjDJUCeohBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20091218194214AA2D6LG