David Bailey
Member
Yes, but you might as well add the number of deaths from road accidents - it really isn't the same. The attacks that I listed have been done because those people could not tolerate Western life. Those fanatics were giving their lives to kill as many people as possible. I mean, I would have thought the US would have learned from 9/11 - total fanatics can do terrible things out of all proportion to their numbers. It was rumoured that one of those planes was meant to crash into a nuclear power station!You took all context out by selectively quoting what I said. I said that there have been many more violent deaths by other groups or domestic gun killings - if Americans are really concerned about safety surely that should be a higher priority?
I am skeptical whether he will scale it back, but glad we agree that US foreign policy is a massive issue.
If he fails to do it, it will be because of opponents - many of them Democrat - that can't seem to see that if we don't mess about with Russia, they won't mess about with us. The UK is almost as bad, but it is the US that has taken the lead in whole process. I mean, to take just one example, Afghanistan would be in a far better place right now if the US had left the Soviets in charge to control them. Girls could go to school, for example, but the US let the Taleban in, and then had to fight them. It was the same story with Saddam Hussein - they backed him with weapons, and then ended up fighting him.
David