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by ta1243 231 days ago
Might makes right?

That kind of arrogance is what leads to 9/11, the most successful destruction of a western country since ww2.

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Didn't this happen because of the abandonment of this principle?

9/11 would not have happened if there were no radical Muslims in the world, and US had the Might to make such world.

The US had the might to make such a world as demonstrated by... their loss to the Taliban in Afghanistan?

Killing an individual is easy. Killing an ideology next to impossible, and trying tends to make the proponents more violently against you.

>US had the Might to make such world.

It is clear to me that the US never had the capacity to do that.