Imagine that Afghanistan had attacked and occupied the USA for 10 years and 4 months. Imagine their excuse for the invasion was they wanted a criminal who might possibly be hiding in the USA. They wanted him handed over, without an extradition hearing, without negotiating an extradition treaty. The USA refused Afghanistan’ offer hold an ad hoc extradition hearing to present evidence. Nobody knew where bin Laden was. (He turned up eventually in Pakistan.) Bush demanded America to find and capture him or be invaded. Imagine they deposed president Obama and installed the world’s biggest heroin dealer as dictator. Imagine they bombed and desecrated churches and synagogues and their soldiers tried to convert people to Islam at gunpoint. Imagine if they converted the entire economy to produce illegal drugs. How would you judge this behaviour? Why do you judge it completely differently when it is your country (USA, Canada, Britain) that commits the crimes?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)