Dennis said that if Israel is a greater obstacle to peace than Hamas, it would be the first time in history that a free society wanted war.
In Athens vs Sparta, wasn’t Athens relatively free compared to Sparta and didn’t Athens launch the final war in that conflict?
The United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Iraq was a tyranny. America was a free country. And America started that war while Iraq posed zero threat to America.
The United States invaded Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Wasn’t this a free country invading tyrannies?
The United States intervened countless times in Latin America. Aren’t these more examples disproving Prager’s claim?
England and other European powers invaded countless poorer, less free, countries during the age of colonialism.
Here is Prager’s quote from the video above: “In modern history, every war has been between a free state and a police state or two police states. I can’t think of a 20th Century example of any other. Where in the world other than Israel does anyone ever argue that the free state doesn’t want peace and the police state wants peace? This would be the first free state in history to prefer war to peace.”
The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?
In the 1990s, the United States went to war with Serbia. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?
In the 1960s, the United States went to war against North Vietnam. Wasn’t that a free state going to war with a police state?
