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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by kerkeslager on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:42AM (#16552467)
Sure, if you myopically only look at a narrow definition foreign invasion. But we're not the safest place in the world from attack by any stretch of the imagination. Our aggression in other countries has made us a target for revenge.

I thought we all agreed we would never forget 9/11.

How many attacks in the List of Islamic Terrorist Attacks[1] page occur in the US? How many occur in Switzerland?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_att...

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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by s3nnyy on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:26AM (#16552819)
I think it is very unfair to compare any country on earth with a heavy outlier like Switzerland (has been neutral for +200 years and did/does business with everyone, sold heavy weaponry to both the US and Japan during WWII etc.)

I live there, this country is smart and unique.

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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by kerkeslager on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:05PM (#16553559)
The person I'm responding to said, "I mean, if you're in the US you do live in the safest place in terms of foreign invasion in the world." (emphasis mine). Their wording indicates that they think the US is also a heavy outlier in terms of safety. So I think the comparison is fair.

I picked Switzerland because it's a fairly unambiguously disproof of their statement, but I agree that there are a great many other examples of places which are safer from attack by an outsider than the US. Depending the criteria you use to measure this, the US probably doesn't even rank in the top 10.

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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by ghostbrainalpha on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:03PM (#16553090)
I agree. The original analogy would have been better served with Canada as a reference.

Edit: Or even better Italy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/why-has-italy-...

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