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Well that was a ridiculous conclusion to draw from a simple emoji. Actually what I found funny was how tribalistic and childish your view was. You simply can’t impose rules on others that you refuse yourself. For instance, if the roles were reversed, and Iran invaded Mexico on false pretenses, occupied and destroyed it, killing thousands and creating refugees, destabilized our economy in the process, then started occupying Canada while conducting military operations on our northern border (analogous to US operations in Pakistan on Iran’s eastern border), would you really say that Americans would have no right to defend themselves by attacking invaders from the other side of the planet??? And like I noted before in this thread, what if Iranian leaders and military strategists were also promoting the eventual overthrow of our country, as we were doing to them soon after launching the “War on Terror”???? Wouldn’t you see Iranian occupation of our neighbors to the South and North as preparations for an eventual invasion of our country??????

<blockquote data-quote="musso" data-source="post: 1538046" data-attributes="member: 11400"><p>Well that was a ridiculous conclusion to draw from a simple emoji. Actually what I found funny was how tribalistic and childish your view was. You simply can’t impose rules on others that you refuse yourself. For instance, if the roles were reversed, and Iran invaded Mexico on false pretenses, occupied and destroyed it, killing thousands and creating refugees, destabilized our economy in the process, then started occupying Canada while conducting military operations on our northern border (analogous to US operations in Pakistan on Iran’s eastern border), would you really say that Americans would have no right to defend themselves by attacking invaders from the other side of the planet??? And like I noted before in this thread, what if Iranian leaders and military strategists were also promoting the eventual overthrow of our country, as we were doing to them soon after launching the “War on Terror”???? Wouldn’t you see Iranian occupation of our neighbors to the South and North as preparations for an eventual invasion of our country??????</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="musso, post: 1538046, member: 11400"] Well that was a ridiculous conclusion to draw from a simple emoji. Actually what I found funny was how tribalistic and childish your view was. You simply can’t impose rules on others that you refuse yourself. For instance, if the roles were reversed, and Iran invaded Mexico on false pretenses, occupied and destroyed it, killing thousands and creating refugees, destabilized our economy in the process, then started occupying Canada while conducting military operations on our northern border (analogous to US operations in Pakistan on Iran’s eastern border), would you really say that Americans would have no right to defend themselves by attacking invaders from the other side of the planet??? And like I noted before in this thread, what if Iranian leaders and military strategists were also promoting the eventual overthrow of our country, as we were doing to them soon after launching the “War on Terror”???? Wouldn’t you see Iranian occupation of our neighbors to the South and North as preparations for an eventual invasion of our country?????? [/QUOTE]