saintmichaeldefendthem
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Nobody asked you to, silly.There's some kind of disconnect here. Your neighbors kids don't pay taxes to you so your analogy flops right there. Sony isn't a neighbor kid, it's a major American based multi billion dollar corporation that pays taxes here and is a significant part of our economy. It's unreasonable to deny them protection.Then you should be on board with this. And by the way this is my thread so of course I read it all.This isn't "policing the world" this is retaliating against an act of state sponsored terror. Huge difference. They're not in the stone age like so many morons on this thread have been saying, but we should put them there. Can they retaliate with an EMP against us? Not if they can't even communicate with their own satellites. Yeah, they have those. Not so unsophisticated after all.
I don't expect you to read the whole thread, so I'll re-cap.
Yes, it is policing the world because Sony is a Japanese company. If it were an American company, then I am behind retaliation. But retaliating for foreign companies against foreign countries is certainly policing the world. My philosophy if it were an American company is to retaliate 10 times over.
Sony's assets are almost all here and they pay monstrous taxes on the business they do here. The threat was made on US operations, releasing a movie in American theaters. This in every way was an attack on an American business.
OK, but you seemed to not know what my position was, I've said it several times. And obviously we agree on most things. But no with this I'm not on board, it's a Japanese company. That we allow our neighbor's kids to eat dinner with us any time they want, every night if choose, doesn't mean that we're responsible for their college tuition. This is Japan's responsibility. Of course I would support them, but I would not do it for them.
That something is no identical in every way does not make it not an analogy. And that I am denying them protection is a strawman, I am not fighting overseas for them.