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Originally Posted by botticelli
The fact that Saudi Arabia was never on that list makes all previous lists laughable. You might as well change the names to "countries the US doesn't like".
"Countries determined by the Secretary of State to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism"
Executing your uncle does not boil down to international terrorism.
The whole list becomes meaningless when you insist there is terrorism, when there isn't.
Sending your delegates on foreign soil to assassinate others using chemical agents is considered acts of terrorism even if it is a relative. Trump made the right call.
Perhaps it will apply some more pressure on North Korea to.......well, I don't know what they will do.
Being on The List before did not seem to bother them. Mr. Bush the Younger taking them off The List in 2006 to help with negotiations did no good.
Of course, if the only criteria for going on The List is a state sending agents to foreign lands to assassinate people (whether domestic or foreign to said state), then no doubt Mr. Trump is taking a good hard look at Putin and Russia.
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Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber
Bush took them off the list, and now Trump put them back on because they have assassinated people. Are political assassinations terrorism? I don't know, but CIA needs to be careful taking out our enemies, because otherwise they will become a terror organization based on Trump's definition.
The fact that Saudi Arabia was never on that list makes all previous lists laughable. You might as well change the names to "countries the US doesn't like".
Sending your delegates on foreign soil to assassinate others using chemical agents is considered acts of terrorism even if it is a relative. Trump made the right call.
That was my point in the OP, because we also take out people on foreign soil if we consider them enemies, so even US is guilty of the same according to Trump’s new definition, and not only US, but many of our allies. I do not think political assassinations are acts of international terrorism.
11-20-2017, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by marino760
Why would even a liberal complain about North Korea being put back on that list regardless of what's happening in the rest of the world?
Because th elist is supposed to be state sponsors of terror, yet it contains countries with no history of sponsoring terrorism and leaves out the biggest sponsors.
Change the name of the list to reflect what's actually on it, or change the countries on the list so that it actually has something to do with terrorism.
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Originally Posted by botticelli
The fact that Saudi Arabia was never on that list makes all previous lists laughable. You might as well change the names to "countries the US doesn't like".
I think you need to add "but happily sells weapons to and takes their $$$" to "countries the US doesn't like".
Because th elist is supposed to be state sponsors of terror, yet it contains countries with no history of sponsoring terrorism and leaves out the biggest sponsors.
Change the name of the list to reflect what's actually on it, or change the countries on the list so that it actually has something to do with terrorism.
Yes, change the name of the list to what it really represents. Maybe “political opponents of the US” would be more accurate.
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