BAGHDAD FALLS

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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Not true. Or have you never heard of "Latin America" or "Africa"?

Of course. But there is no dictatorship in this hemisphere that poses a serious threat to anyone, and few that have done anything grevious to their people in quite some time. The worst we have to offer is the turmoil in Columbia and Venezuela, but in comparison to some of the shit that goes on in the East, what with militant Islamists and the like, that's as tame as a newborn puppy.

Also, hate to break it to you, professor, but most of Africa is in the eastern hemisphere, and certainly has more ties to the east than the West. To say nothing of the place being barely industrialized.

Simple fact of the matter is that Western civilization is more advanced, more powerful, richer, and more civilized by far than the East. We have the power to make as many armageddon-inducing weapons as we want, but we also have the foresight and morality not to use them except in the most extreme of cases. Can you say that many Eastern nations possess that? Not unless you think lying is fun.

If there were no WMDs anywhere, that'd be great. But if anyone has to have them, I feel a hundred times safer with the possessors being us. Because when you get right down to it, when's the last time we hijacked commercial airliners and plowed them into giant skyscrapers in the middle of one of the most densly populated cities in the world, for the express purpose of the mass murder of innocent civilians, with no reason or provocation except lies told to us by an insane fundamentalist warping and perverting the teachings he claims to hold dear just to get us to do the dirty work?

I rest my case.