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Originally Posted by peter12
This is the worst/silliest/stupidest argument against our involvement in Afghanistan. We can't be everywhere so we should be nowhere?
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Thats not really my argument.
My argument is that, if we went in for American revenge as you acknowledge, this PR business of being about women's rights, democracy, etc is a load of BS and a justification.
If we really care about those things, our actions in the world would be different, and we would care about more places and we would raise the profile of places we couldn't get to in order to encourage other rich countries to do so. You would see our politicians make more of a big deal about it, on our own soil and at international conferences, in the UN, etc.
That we don't do this, suggests we don't really care about women's rights and democracy enough to invade other countries and enforce it. Which makes our commitment in Afghanistan questionable.
You don't see why some people would have a problem with a war that was started to help the Americans get some revenge and then was post-justified in some other way? It is costing people money and costing people lives. If the justification wasn't legitimate initially then making it about something else seems fishy to me.
If Canada has the export of women's rights and democracy as one of its highest values I think we'd act in a different way in general. So the stated goals of the war do not seem to jive with our other actions.