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Maybe if our prison system in the USA was a model for human rights and justice then maybe we would be outraged. We as citizens are so conditioned to human rights abuses that we joke about sexual assault on prisoners by another inmates. We even have a prison in Guantanamo Cuba for the exact purpose of inmates of having virtually no legal recourse against human rights abuses. The USA despite having 5% of the world's population has 25% of the world's prisoners. We have the highest incarceration rate of the world by far. Its kinda difficult to get outraged about another country's injustice concerning its prison population while we have our own problems in the USA concerning human rights and injustice with our justice system and industrial prison complex.
People incarcerated in prisons in the US eat better and have better medical care than many who live outside of prison in other countries. At the same time most people feel safer living in the US than they would in these other countries that haven't gotten the "bad" people sequestered away where they cannot do harm to the decent people. I don't see a lot of people moving out of the US to live in other countries out of fear of going to jail here, unless they have already done something that might put them there.
People incarcerated in prisons in the US eat better and have better medical care than many who live outside of prison in other countries. At the same time most people feel safer living in the US than they would in these other countries that haven't gotten the "bad" people sequestered away where they cannot do harm to the decent people. I don't see a lot of people moving out of the US to live in other countries out of fear of going to jail here, unless they have already done something that might put them there.
USA can't have people leaving, who else would help fund the War Machine?
Stay: eat genetically altered hormone filled food, spoon fed BS pop/entertainment culture while working for lower quality of life.
if Israel doesn't want iran to get nukes, let Israel deal with iran. but make sure they give me a call first so I can sell my mutual funds.
Iran wants nukes, not because of Israel, but because of the terroristic practices of the U.S.! That was wrong, wrong, wrong of us to install the Shah for our selfish benefit back in the 50's, and if you were Iran wouldn't you want nukes, too?
Same with North Korea! When U.S. military forces were dispatched, in 1953, to destroy their irrigation dams, furnishing 75% of their controlled rice supply, leaving people starving to death over there, wouldn't you want nukes as well?
There's a few other countries which the U.S. terrorized, in the 80's, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. They should have nukes as well, just in case the U.S. decides once again to play Big-Daddy-Knows-Best in these countries!
How to deal with it IDK..I know the UN is a spineless facade, who look towards the US to cure all evils.
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No, actually the UN is an effective force. The UN has sent non-American peacekeepers into conflict zones for years: Cyprus, Egypt, Rwanda, Vietnam (after the Paris peace accords, a Canadian friend in the Canadian forces was a UN peacekeeper in Vietnam post-1973), and so on. Heck, Gulf War I was a UN initiative, supported and equipped by 33 UN members. True, the US was one of those members and contributed the lion's share, but to claim that it was the only belligerent, would be incorrect. Thirty-two other nations made contributions that helped the UN/Allied forces succeed. Afghanistan was a UN initiative, and had the US, as well as Canada, Germany, the UK, France, Australia, and Italy involved, among others.
However, the UN doesn't seem to like using US forces for peacekeeping duties in recent years, as the US is not looked upon kindly by many nations. Still, the US was part of UN forces in the Korean War (alongside Canada, the UK, and others), and in Vietnam (alongside Australia and others). As noted, these were UN initiatives.
American media seems to like to portray the US military as "Globo-Cop," operating unilaterally; but as history after 1945 shows, the US military is very often part of a coalition of allies under the aegis of the UN.
Gotta love the USA acting like it's some well off Scandinavian nation bored with inspirations to fix the world...... Please clean up your massive mess at home.
People incarcerated in prisons in the US eat better and have better medical care than many who live outside of prison in other countries. At the same time most people feel safer living in the US than they would in these other countries that haven't gotten the "bad" people sequestered away where they cannot do harm to the decent people. .
Feel safer in a country with untold number of countries so angry with us they'd lob a missile into our country in a heartbeat, if they could? And all with justifiable anger towards us!! From past misdeeds!!
Shall we start with Latin America? Cuba, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Chile? And can someone else cover the African, Middle East and Asian countries?
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