Yes, in the context of a situation like this, one I feel we do not belong in, the greater number of their deaths are less important than the far fewer deaths of ours. Like I said, I'm no humanist, and I'm not very sensitive. If the entirity of the UN was represented with troops in Iraq, and the far fewer deaths were distributed, and the economic burden distributed, then I would say that would be 100 times better than it is now. As it stands, that isnt' the case, we are bearing the brunt of the military and economic burden, and as my tax dollars pay for it, I hold resentment.
Like I said, like you said, I am no humanist. People on an average level are too stupid, and too crazy for me to care enough about our species as to call myself a humanist. Take religion for example, if people on an average level had 100% more common sense and thought for themselves 100% more, religion wouldn't be as popular as it is. However, the numbers speak for themselves, and as such prove the world is full of idiots.
Now, before you go on ranting about dictatorships, I didn't say removing Saddam from power was a bad idea, I said we went about it all the wrong way, and because of that we're in the mess we are now.
I didn't say screw them either, but I don't pay 18% of every paycheck to go towards retarded foreign policy and wasting lives in the name of saving those born to a miserable fate. Why don't I hear you saying it makes you want to puke how the US is doing 75% of everything in Iraq, and the rest of the world could more or less be saying "screw those born into a miserable fate"?
Why is Iraq such a damn noble cause, and everyone else in the world being born into a miserable fate doesn't get a 100th of the attention, money, or military policing? Why is Iraq so damn special?
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Originally Posted by unregistered
your "tax payer dollars", yup - you said it all right there
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I said what all right there? That I work damn hard for the money I make, and accept that the government gets a portion of it, and believe they should be halfway reasonable in how they spend it? If caring for how my contribution to the government is spent is saying anything about me, I don't know how that can be seen as wrong. I want proper representation for the money I contribute, not excuses and hindsight reasons for starting wars.