Originally posted by Falcon Horus
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Since then, NO ONE country has wiped out the entire I.S., but allowed them to grow to the degree and geographical locations they now exist in. Not to also mention the Boko Haram, who have pledge allegiance with the I.S., making the group that much larger and widespread.
Originally posted by Falcon Horus
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Of course, it didn't help when GWBush jr. decided to jump into Iraq, much to the chargrin of the rest of us American folks. Within 3 short weeks after September 11, 2001, the world stopped being united against the tragedy of the destruction of the WTC in NYC, NY, because GWBush decided to attack Iraq instead of locating the sources of the remaining living ones who destroyed the World Trade towers to begin with.
Problem is that there were too many naive Americans so generously willing to help the rest of the world out in 2001, and now the USA is considered the "BAD guys". It's not the general public residents of the USA that went in, but TPTB who sent our guys/gals into that region. The rest of us are just a bunch of statistical numbers . . . that's all. We pay our taxes, or get fined, etc., and have no control over who is abusing where all that money actually goes -- ending up for the good or for bad.
Originally posted by aretood2
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Originally posted by Coco Pops
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Doesn't help that certain PTB don't know where the financial and emotional boundary lines are for those who generously give and give and give. There are limits to such giving -- most of us do not have endless pockets. Bottomless pockets maybe, because the bottom was ripped out a few years ago. Life for a good portion of those who could give (in little amounts from the little they had) in the past, has been spiraling downhill ever since. Some of us are still trying to help out our local food banks. But there's only so much that can be given by those folks.
There are also problems amongst people fresh out of schools and colleges, because they simply cannot live as their grandparents could back in the mid-to-late 1900's. Some young folks have moved back in with mom or dad, or some relative, because they simply cannot afford to pay rent or buy a home (some homes in foreclosure require handyman's special financial support, too; so that doesn't help when one room of 5 other rooms --also requiring fixing-- might cost $10,000.00 US dollars to fix and there's no money to fix it with either. Additionally on the health side, many Americans are on psychotropic or various pain meds, too, which complicates other issues.
Originally posted by Womble
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