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I'm afraid you'll have to. Assumptions and conventional wisdom is how people arrive at some ill-thought of conclusions in my opinion.
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Okay, well were one of the richest countries in the world, fact. Governments and other countries tend to listen to rich countries. We're also one of the most powerful countries in the world. We also have the strongest military in the world, people tend to listen to those kind of countries.
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I'm merely pointing out the flaws in your logic.
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What flaws? You just said what I said in more words.
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I shouldn't. The very idea of his foreign policy is unrealistic and naive. In a time where foreign policy is brutally crucial to the sanctity of the globe, I don't want DK healing it back with renewable energy while he gives it away in foreign policy.
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So you're allowed to make sweeping statements that are pretty insulting without backing them up? I don't see what's wrong with his foreign policy either. "We need to understand the connection between peace and the environment. We know that life on our planet is threatened by the twin threats of global warring and global warming. They are linked, and we have to understand that as we cognize the world as being interconnected and interdependent, we know that resource wars are passe and that the focus on sustainability will create peace." Seems pretty solid and agreeable to me, maybe you should point out all thats terrible about it though.
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No, we should always strive to be better, but if we don't achieve it the "america is so corrupt and do you know what their doing to [third world country]" arguments should at least acknowledge that we certainly move in the correct direction a lot more than we do not. I think far too much is taken for granted here. We can do better, but we could also do much worse.
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I never said we were worse off than Africa.