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Originally Posted by AngelikDemonik
Women can be treated like animals in any country. As can men.
Coming from a person (myself) who has family over in the Middle East--MANY consider Western women to be nasty, masculine sluts. I've heard it myself from my neighbors and my family.
I don't think you'd like it very much if a foreign country came over to wherever it is you live and tried to force their mores and values on you.
Team America World Police....hell yeah?
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Sadly, there's a bit of difference between how women are culturally treated in Islamic societies, and the way they are treated by Islamic extremists.
If you are arguing that it is immorral for us to force western values on them, you might have a point. However, I don't see our troops opening up indoctrination centers or shooting people who don't dress in mini-skirts.
If, however, you are arguing that it is immoral for the United States to restrict the opportunity for people such as the Taliban to enforce their brutal and cruel philosophies on countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan...
Then I must respectfully disagree. I don't think that the United States is morally required to police the world, but I do think that once we butt our noses in, we should try to clean up the mess.
To date, the casualty toll for American troops is far lower than any other war we have participated in. Although each death is a tragedy, and war is not a good thing, it must be kept in perspective...that many people will die if we abandon the country now.
With the recent successes of "the surge", I don't particularly see an definite end in sight, but it is true that many Iraqis have seen a hope for the future. I don't believe that most people in Iraq want to live under the rule of those insurgents currently fighting us there.