It isn't Islam we are at war with; it is terrorists.
And it isn't "we" who are at war, it's "them", the rich people, the people whose interests are all messed up.
And has it changed?
In France someone wanted to make a film, only a few years ago, about the soccer match in no-man's-land at xmas 1914.
The French govt wanted to prevent it happening. They spent 90 years trying to cover up the fact that the poor people wanted nothing to do with the rich people's war, and wanted to start a revolution.
In Russia they were successful, mainly because the Tsar was inept and couldn't deal with his country.
You're not even On Topic, the thread is about the bomb explosions in Brussels....not about what occured in 1914.
Oh please. It's as if this event happened for no reason.
Or maybe you just want to try and shut me up by pretending that this has nothing to do with it.
Oh, by the way, me talking about 1914 was a COMPARISON.
The poor died then, for the rich's interests. The poor die now (in Brussels today) for the rich's interests.
History repeating itself. Let's stop history repeating itself.
Have you even mentioned how terrible this is, that these awful happenings have occured today and that you have feeling for those involved?
No all you've done is rant about how this is "our" fault because of "Iraq" and ranted something semi-coherent about 1914.
Let's try this.
What is happening today is terrible.
What happened in Iraq was more terrible. More people died, people people lost limbs, more people suffered.
They're both bad.
Had Bush not invaded Iraq today wouldn't be bad. Iraq would still have seen bad stuff happening but not on this scale.
However I'm talking about HOW TO STOP THIS STUFF.
Terrible stuff happens every day. 9,000 people are shot and killed in the US every year, 30,000 are killed on the roads, people die all the time and terrible shit happens all the time.
When it happened in Paris, many people put French flags on their Facebook and other places. When shit happens in Nigeria, of Mali, or Russia, or wherever, there ARE NO FLAGS OF THESE COUNTRIES ON FACEBOOK.
I will not be quelled simply because these attacks are too close to home. I've been through Brussels's airport, and Brussels itself, only as a transport hub. I'm planning on going to Brussels in like 3 or 4 months.
Don't ******* tell me what to think, don't tell me I should be more shocked at these deaths than the deaths in other places.
I was in Spain for the Madrid bombings, I was in the UK for the London bombings, I should have been in the US for 9/11 and even had a ticket to leave a week after from NY city, but events lead me somewhere else at that time, luckily. I was in Russia just before bombs went off on their St. Petersburg-Moscow trainline which I used. I've been in Istanbul where a bomb went off a few days ago, you didn't demand that denounce those terrorists who, yes, are Muslims, but Muslims the US supports.
So don't throw your shit at my to try and shut me up.