LGB is a Poet!
My brother had to write a poem as homework for his Gr. 11 English class. He was disgusted at the thought, because like me, he generally thinks poetry is emo and not "real writing". So to inspire him, I told him to write a poem as if it was a freestyle rap. I am going to share the first draft of what he came up with, because misspaprika thinks ninja_sheep and foodsthatcan will
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Exactly. EXACTLY. I was going to say that, but I thought if I took the time to respond to all the things in Shelster's argument that I disagreed with, it would be anti-Ramadan-like and possibly rage-inducing, which is also anti-Ramadan-like, so I left it alone. But YES. EXACTLY.
You can do tons to help cure AIDS and help rebuild a country after a tsunami hits by sending money, which the western world has an abundance of, and peaceful aid. The money part is the big reason why we're often looked to for help in these types of situations and why it's considered our responsibility to a certain extent. The distribution of wealth in the world is clearly unbalanced (for reasons both valid and not), so IMHO, looking to the developed nations of the world to solve problems that can be solved or helped by redistributing some of the wealth of the world is both fair and natural.
On the other hand, you can't create democracy in a volatile country with money. It takes a lot of bloodshed and a lot of time and a lot of effort, and most western countries are not willing to put in the kind of thought, time, money, and follow-up effort that is needed to make something like that work. Sure, they can go in with guns and kill a lot of people and terrorize the dictators out of there, but then what happens when they leave? There's a country left behind full of people who have no idea how to run an efficient democracy. They don't have the structures in place or the money to put the structures into place that are necessary to make any of it work. And once the war is "won", the developed countries who were all into fighting for democracy for the people don't care anymore, because it wasn't their battle to fight in the first place and they're not there to face the consequences of the fallout. They don't have to deal with the chaos and the every day problems that the fallout creates.
It's all well and good to say, "OMG! The people were suffering under horrible Saddam!", but the thing is, the people are still suffering even though he's gone and the great U.S. has "freed" them.
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