Whaaaa? You brought up a stupid comparison. And you're telling me to stop posting because I disagree with it? I don't know what your reason for having a bad attitude towards me is today, maybe it's from my posts you warned the other day? If it is then get over it. Snaf and I spar on the forums but we don't let it spill over into other threads (or our friendship). If you don't want to take a page out of my book, take it out of his and don't degrade the argument and thread over a stupid grudge.


Onto the man topic....

Any change of government and lifestyle to a people is a going to be a shock to their system. It was for the US when we first gained our independence, and it was a shocking change in government and life for the Germans and Japanese after WW2.

Your hypothetical comparison would make sense if our country was as barbaric nation. You say imagine if the place I contently lived in was suddenly occupied, what would I feel? I'd be angry, unless it was a change for the better. The difference is, in neither Iraq or Afghanistan were the people satisfied with their lives. They CHEERED when we liberated them.

To simplify your comparison, you're asking how would we feel if a the government came in and told us all we had to get rid of our old consoles and have PS2s. Well if I had an Atari, hell ya, I'd be happy for the change. If I had a 360 I'd say fuck no. Afghanistan and Iraq are the people with Ataris, the US is the people with the 360s. Do you understand what I mean when your comparison is invalid?

And I don't even know how Iraq came up in our convo, seeing as how I was talking about Afghanistan in the OP you quoted.