Debate: Should Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II be removed, along with all royals?
Side: Yes.

"In truth, I am not aware of why the war was started, but I suspect that it was at least in part to stabilise the Iraqi oil industry."Although the question is a complex one it can nearly always be reduced to the countries strategic importance either due to the location, or how resource rich the country is, or sometimes the effect of the counry gaining independece needds to be prevented. You should read the following interviews:http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20050131.htm http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20080708.htm "However, it has been my observation that wars are generally fought for selfish reasons."Yes i beleive that to be somewhat of a truism."so I suspect that the dissolution of the Taliban government was the primary reason for the war."I don't know exactly what the reasons were myself, dismantling of the Taliban was undoubtly one of them, in the wake of 9/11 it may also have been a knee-jerk reaction as the US had asked the Taliban to hand over Bin Laden, then they mistakenly asked for evidence, but the likelyhood of it being planned long before that is also high. either way Afghanistan was deemed important enough strategically to warrant an invasion.http://www.counterpunch.org/rothenberg05262010.html "It may be distasteful to you and I, but I try to remember that war is war."I have to take issue with this, by your logic the brutal take over of Tibet can be justified in the exactly the way."Third, I am an elitist and I do not and never will apologise for that."Fair enough."Finally, I am something of a bigot, but in my experience almost everybody is, so I plead the human condition."I must admit i was expecting a more retaliatory response. I can't really argue with your response as you are correct."nd then consistently insults and despises everything to do with it."While this argument is definitely not without substance i beleive your argument is flawed in the sense that your nation would not be so wealthy had it not colonised a resource rich sub-continent like India.Therefore, when the descendants of the people who inhabited those places that were conquered in order to grow your empire come lookiing for some from of indemnification, are they not justified?"and then consistently insults and despises everything to do with it."I will admit that is indefensible."for the simple reason that you judge every past act with a set of modern values, and always see the conqueror as the wrongdoer."I will admit i do suffer quite terribly from underdog syndrome but i can be fairly objective when i limit my emotional bias."In my experience, things are always a little more complicated than that. "I agree completely, Britain was responsible for doing many wonderful things for the peoples of India, not least the construction of the rail network, i doubt India would have the rising economy it has today were it not for the steps towards modernisation instituted under British rule, however i would still contned that most of this development was done for selfish reasons.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_India http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/india-from-ancient-economy-to-british-colony.html "I call kinda scum because he has suggested that I am a a homosexual on numerous occasions,has insulted my country in terms too rude to be repeated here, has used foul language against me in almost every single argument he has ever written and has even, when I used my own face as a profile image, called me ugly."Didn't know all that, i suppose i can't really blame you."In future I shall thank you to consider your accusations a little more thoroughly."I shall."In my experience, tradition is rarely wholly stupid."I think thats a matter of perspective, i think it is also dependent on what exactly the tradition is."No, sir, you simply have the tiresome habit of being self-righteous."I suppose given the entire history of my posts i could definitely be accused of this but fortunately thats not how i actually am, i suppose i haven't really learned to loosen up on this site, i constantly debate serious issue and act as if im some kind of moral arbiter which is understandly annoying to anyone on the receiving end.