Originally posted by: tangent1138
Originally posted by: Winchester
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: Winchester
Originally posted by: Elderly Newt
Except we have freedom of speech in America, so I don't know how well that would hold up.
There is a difference between collaborating with an enemy of the United States and free speech. Her actions are no different than if she went and fought beside Osama. She has now done the same thing.
so when our govt funds foreign govt (Iraq) etc that is somehow better than what she did?
just because they are elected officials, it doesn't mean that they are held to a different standard. if what she did is traitorous than many of our presidents have also been traitorous.
We fund allies. Sometimes those allies turn around and bite us and therefore become enemies, hence, WWI, WWII, and so on.
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
World War I started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered by Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist secret society. Austria-Hungry demanded justice. When Serbia didn't produce the assassins, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28th, 1914.
Russia, bound by treaty to Serbia, announced mobilization of its vast army in her defense.
Germany, allied to Austria-Hungary by treaty, viewed the Russian mobilization as an act of war against Austria-Hungary, and declared war on Russia on August 1st.
France, bound by treaty to Russia, found itself at war against Germany and, by extension, on Austria-Hungary. Germany was swift in invading neutral Belgium so as to reach Paris by the shortest possible route.
Britain, allied to France by a more loosely worded treaty which placed a "moral obligation" upon her to defend France, declared war against Germany on August 4th.
With Germany's invasion of Belgium on 4 August, and the Belgian King's appeal to Britain for assistance, Britain committed herself to Belgium's defence later that day. Like France, she was by extension also at war with Austria-Hungary.
With Britain's entry into the war, her colonies and dominions abroad variously offered military and financial assistance, and included Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa.
United States President Woodrow Wilson declared a U.S. policy of absolute neutrality, an official stance that would last until 1917 when Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare - which seriously threatened America's commercial shipping- forced the U.S. to finally enter the war on April 6th 1917.
See, you learned something today.