Boycott and not granting different needed resources like fuel would probably be quite fatal, most of the american wares are import, no? The gaining of export in america is so thiny in comparison to what the cost of import is that it is a big problem, and the amount of fuel they use each years are to much for themselves to obtain without trade.
Fuel is the only thing the Middle-Easterners have. Saudi Arabia for example will be screwed as soon as Oil reserves start dwindling. They have made no back-up income so to say. The USA also consumed ridicilously lot of crude oil, if they stop providing, they just
cant find a consumer that'd match the purchasing power. There's also the point that quite a few of the crude oil companies are international/western.
As for why they should: Simply care for what people do to each other and not tolerate that the people with most guns can do whatever they want against everyone else without any conseqences (spelling mistake! D:<). Much better option instead of just blaming it on the guy with a different religion because a tiny little bunch of insane ones practising something similar managed to blow up two buldings. As for profit doing this: not really a good investment in terms of money and resources but you would probably spare a few lives here and there. If the left side of america would have done something more about the iraq war then just protesting against it then that would also be greatly appreciated.
That's the reason revolutions and rebellions happen. No one gives a flying squirrel about the reasons countries go to war. They only try to ensure that the power
status quo is maintained. And you cant just force USA to change their course of actions.
I thought that the borders around in africa was greated by western colonists, and that different companies are exploiting african resources today making it misserable. One example is EU with their agreement with some rich bastards (who is probably living in France with champain under his pillow) in west-african countries, the population have to buy expencive imported chickens from europe instead of producing their own, among other things, making food much harder to obtain.
I mentioned the borders in my previous post. Africa is a hole. The butt-end of the world. Corruption and crime run rampant. There just isn't anything to do about it unless a firm democracy is managed but that'll be unlikely without intervention. The "rich bastards" are the best we can manage right now. If we just let some random dictator take control, god knows what he'd do with the resources.
In a war with such big numbers of civilian casualities and cruel methods i can't really see the difference. Both sides killed lots of civilains and used fear as a tool. It is actually quite the same, only difference is that one side is classified as terrorists and thus are bad people and the other side does the exact same thing with more cruel methods and are basically forgiven about that because they have more weapons and thus is a treath if you oppose them. As i observe it in this case, war is an act of terrorism and terrorism is an act of war, between a small radical group and a nation with way to many far-right extremists.
Point is that i don't really believe there is a good prt and a bad part here, no matter the intentions.
War only has winners and losers. The "good guys" part is decided after a win or loss.
Also, no nation can control their troops that well to keep them from misbehaving or using cruelty. The average human's psyche cannot cope with the stress war in completely foreign culture and land brings. Add in their friends dieing to the enemy, having to watch every step for landmines, I can easily see how a lot of people snap and become so vindictive as to torture the locals. It's just the human element of war.
Western governments would usually come in to break up the civil wars as NATO and UN forces. Problem is, after the break it up they pretty much abandon them to deal with the aftermath, the UN usually leaves some troops around but they stick in their camps all day rather than try to keep peace.
Oh noes, the evil western governments are trying to instill a puppet government! Hurr Durr!
A negative vs a negative doesn't make it right. It was disgraceful behaviour for a day for mourning, and I would have said the same thing for a day of mourning for Isalmic people mourning the death of people as well.
The protests on 9/11 2011 were wrong.
No one disputed that. It was just mentioned that giving them attention wont make them go away. The more attention they receive, the more successfull their "protest" is. You're best off ignoring them. World is full of stupid people like that.