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Originally Posted by DevilSide
With respect sir, when we assisted the mujahideen fighters in ousting the Soviet Army and did'nt help rebuild and send more aid it added to foreign resentment that the taliban used as a recruiting tool. I don't know what the right thing is but I dont know if just leaving is.
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Maybe so, but their culture, ideologies and what they cling to as the absolute truth isn't gonna change. To put it in starker terms: If America was completely isolationist, if we didn't believe in spreading democracy, liberating the oppressed, supporting Israel etc. 9/11 still would have happened, may 50 years later or so, but it still would have, 9/11/1683 should ring a bell. So we might be guilty of accelerating that resentment, and sometimes rightly so, but to consistently apologize for our foreign(and domestic) policy, our culture and our way of life, no matter how far off course our moral compass may be at times, is indefensible. My .002, YMMV