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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just stop. Here in the U.S. we are privileged and blessed. Try going over to Afghanistan and see how long you’d last. Between the Taliban and ISIS, you’d be lucky to survive a week. [/quote]

I hate to indulge this incredibly random divergence...but there are many people who live long and healthy lives in Afghanistan, and take pride in their heritage.  Yes, absolutely there are some awful conditions there, particularly right now.....but you know there are awful conditions in this country as well, right?[/quote]

Which is why people are clinging to airplanes or risking being trampled or blown up to get out.  Yeah, you’re right, the people here are just the same.[/quote]

I didn't say that they are the same.  I am saying that it is absurd to say that anyone who is in Afghanistan will die within a week is absurd.  That country is currently in turmoil, and there is a great deal of violence and oppression, certainly.  But to single out that entire COUNTRY as being terrible while holding up the U.S. as some shining city on a hill is both unhelpful, irrelevant to this argument, and extremely reductionist and narrow minded.[/quote]

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