Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Bill Maher | The US: World's Policeman or Schoolyard Bully?

maher writes:
"But however valid that argument may be, it is, I believe, outweighed by the fact that we have to stop bombing Muslim countries if we ever want to feel safe from terrorism in our own."

you can say Syria is a muslim country, but is assad a muslim country? and is feeling safe from terrorism more important that stopping the bleeding in a muslim country?
just questions that i feel are normally ignored.
the time for obama to respond w force is over; i am just responding to maher's logic, which i find typically fueling a certain isolationism and a certain deployment of the word terrorism that feeds a vision of the world i don't quite agree with
one can be against american imperialism without being an isolationist
ken

On 9/16/13 7:32 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:

 

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