Why is muslim blood cheap?

[khushal]

This is a very relevant question. But the decision to spend or invest in Afghanistan is taken my the concerned authorities of the US. They do every thing in their national and strategic interest. I do not think they are stupid because a super power cannot be run by stupids.

If you have been to US you will see they have an ideal society. Every thing is almost perfect. Economy, development, markets, jobs, cleanliness, rule of law, human rights and standard of life. They are also feeding millions of people of other nations. Once you enter legally or even illegally after some formalities they declare you citizen.

They will never discriminate you by your religion, culture, color etc. I have never been stopped by any authority and has asked me my identity. Muslims practice their religion without any hindrance.Stupids cannot establish such a great system.

For them security is first and Taliban is threat to their security and thus this huge investment in Afghanistan.

The middle east and south Asia before their defeat and division were as you described above.

[Badlun]

Actually the blood of the poor is cheap. the blood of the poor is shed all over the world.

I will quote again as from here the story of rich vs poor started. If the blood of the poor is cheap then to make it costly one has to be rich so that the blood of the poor is not shed all over the world.

How can one become rich? By having more capital and capitalism teaches you how to gather wealth. Religion is for your faith, spirituality, worship, life after death, angles, holy books, morality not guiding you how to create wealth or capital.

Capitalism tells that capital is the most important factor of production. You can buy land, labor and organization/entrepreneurship with capital.

I do agree that money is power and it saves you from many problems including your shedding of blood.

[Badlun]

Your argument is a strawman fallacy. No one said the rich kill the poor. Warren Buffet and Bill gates are not mass murderers. The lion is a bad metaphor for your argument. The lion only kills when he is hungary and leaves what he can not eat to other animals, he does not have a refrigerator to store the meat for future use.

The biggest ethical formula is balance of power to make it difficult for an individual(s) or small group(s) to abuse it.

As said earlier the fight is between rich and poor. Rich can be a state or a person. Rich can be owing to money or technology or information or knowledge or natural resources or human capital whatever but one should be rich not poor. Poverty is the root cause of many evils.

I agree that balance of power is important. Deterrence, balance of power, realism, realpolitik, etc all have similar notions.

[Badlun]

The middle east and south Asia before their defeat and division were as you described above.

I do not understand this. Can you please elaborate further that of which period are you talking about when ME and South Asia had the standard of life what US has today?

Why were they defeated and divided if they were that much strong?

[khushal]

As said earlier the fight is between rich and poor. Rich can be a state or a person. Rich can be owing to money or technology or information or knowledge or natural resources or human capital whatever but one should be rich not poor. Poverty is the root cause of many evils.

I agree that balance of power is important. Deterrence, balance of power, realism, realpolitik, etc all have similar notions.

How can poverty be the root cause of evil when those in poverty are the victims of evil. Evil comes from the abuse of power and to prevent the abuse of power, it has to be balanced. Once you see power shifting and unbalanced, it is inevitable that it will be abused.

[Khostai]

How can poverty be the root cause of evil when those in poverty are the victims of evil. Evil comes from the abuse of power and to prevent the abuse of power, it has to be balanced. Once you see power shifting and unbalanced, it is inevitable that it will be abused.

power abuse is NATURAL

[randolph85]

The Shalit point in the beginning was a bad example. It is almost admirable what those kikes did for that skinny lil kike of theirs. Muslims should covet their own as much. The afg government lets americans kidnap their own citizens after breaking into their homes, place them in prisons with no charge (even the charge of resisting would still be bs), torture and even kill them.