Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic

People can handle accidental, isolated deaths. Yes, someone dies, but there is no malicious force that caused it....

People cannot accept someone else who is out to kill them intentionally because of hatred or a belief system.

I find sporadic intentional, malicious deaths to be far more acceptable than widespread preventable accidental deaths. Any decent human being would feel the same. The important thing is to minimize the loss of human life. Whether there's intentionality behind the deaths is irrelevant.

The problem is, most people aren't decent human beings and care more about being slighted by foreigners than about actually saving lives.

The reason there ever was a "war on terror" isn't to "funnel money to corporate buddies" ?" it's because, to be blunt, we don't put up with that shit

What's sad is that you probably actually believe that. If that were actually true, we'd have actual reasons for going to war, instead of flimsy pretexts.

e.g. Afghanistan, we're there to get Bin Laden, but once we get there we stop looking for him and waste years spending money for nothing. Who does that benefit besides military contractors?

e.g. Iraq. What reason is there to invent a non-existant link between Saddam Hussein and OBL, and hype up non-existent WMDs based on evidence that was known to be false?

Why did we go intervene in Lybia and haven't done much yet in Syria? One's an oil producing nation, the other isn't.

You've made a bold assertion in that "we don't put up with that shit". What sort of mechanisms are in place to prevent that shit from happening? If a well connected vice president actually decided to go to war in order to benefit his cronies, how does the system prevent that? What reason is there to believe that ANY US politician makes ANY decision without considering how it would profit their friends and campaign contributors?

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