Originally posted by Awake
No, we should not conquer the earth. We should do what many other nations haven't done. We need to sit down with Hussein and try to be his friend. We should say "You invaded Kuwait so that you could control 60% of the world's oil supply. You gassed millions of your own people. You are paying the families of homicide bombers, and there is a large pile of growing evidence linking you to the funding of and cooperation with Osama Bin Laden. You are actively seeking to build and refine biological chemical and nuclear weapons. But we want to understand you, we want to delcare peace with you."
This is what nations should have done through the years. England, France, et al should have sat down with Hitler and said "You are killing millions of Jews and taking over the continent preaching the superiority of Germans over the world. But we want to be your friend, we want to understand you."
Awake,
First, let me be polite and welcome you to the forum since you are a newbie. Glad to have you!
CC's statement was a ridiculous statement that you seemed to have taken seriously. It was meant for humor, that's all.
Since you're rebuttal seems sincere, allow me to dissect your argument, i.e. bash you a bit:
Go back and study your history, or better yet pay more attention to the WW1 & WW2 documentaries on the History Channel. Europe, Russia, and the United States DID try to compromise with Hitler. His response? He made promises that he broke and still invaded Europe, Russia, and attacked the United States BEFORE Pearl Harbor. He could not be reasoned with.
How does this relate to the current affairs of Iraq? Iraq has continually violted the terms imposed upon them by the United Nations. You can cut deals with sadistic, evil, dictators, but history shows us what will happen.
Originally posted by Awake
The millions and millions of people slaughtered by both Stalin and Pol Pot should have sat down with him and said "You are starving and killing millions of my fellow citizens, but we want to be your friend. We want to understand why you are killing us faster than we can bury each other."
Originally posted by Awake
The world and the Chinese people should sit down with Jiang Zemin and the other communist leaders and say "You are starving and murdering us into submission. You keep us in abject squallor and poverty with a horribly corrupt government. You control what we say, see, and do. You slaughtered 155 of our own people in Tiananmen Square. You murder thousands of our citizens each year. You force abortions on us, and imprison our families until the women come in for forced sterilization or abortions. You even deliver full term babies and then inject poison into their brains killing them in front of the mother if she has already met her 'reproduction quota'. But we want to understand you, we want to be your friends"
If we fail to learn the lessons that history teaches us, we are doomed to repeat them. You should study more in depth of all the atrocities that have occured at the hands of Saddam Hussein before you actually try to believe that he can be reasoned with.
Originally posted by Awake
I can be just as ludicrous and absurd as our friend Cephalic Carnage.
This statement contradicts your philosophy of 'let's just be friends and understand each other'. You obviously don't subscribe to that thinking either. Personal attacks will not gain you allies.
