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Originally posted by bishop,
what i don't understand is how at one side of their mouth, they'll decry all the atrocities commited while saddam was in power. and they'll talk about how all these other regimes treat average citizens, etc...
and then at the other side of their mouths, these same people blab out bullshit like "flatten fallujah!!".. |
Exactly the point I was making. Some people know at a gut level that we are to hate somebody else because we are TOLD to, and not because they, or at least the civilian population of an enemy nation has done anything to us. Other, far less rational people just buy that we are supposed to hate ALL of them. History is full of this crap.
Otherwise civilized people were told to hate without question:
The "Juden" in their own home country.
The "Japs" in the U.S., regardless of the fact they were U.S. citizens.
The "Gooks" in/from Vietnam.
The "Commie Reds" in the Soviet Union.
And now any Arab who doesn't fall in line with us.
And they didn't disappoint.
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| given such a disparity... what do you think they see the mission as being? surely you can't win people over if you destroy their homes. |
These people are beyond any "mission". It's a lot easier and intellectually lazy to latch on to blind, unreasoning hatred than it is to try to understand the obvious fact that there are ordinary, regular people who bear a lot of the misery and death in any war, and all the more so in THIS one.