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You missed it; it went over your head.
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Me and my buddies move into your neighborhood. What, pray tell, are you going to do? You are probably going to try and save your family. You are assuming a position of power and agency that most Iraqis don't have. The people with power and influence and money are long gone. The people remaining are those who can't leave. They are hardly in a position to fight against those that shed blood. This is unfortunate. What about the VT killings? What are we to think of adult men cowering under their desks while one armed man shot women in the head? Are they not complicit in some way with these killings? And because of their complicity, are we not justified in killing them in our attempt to kill the shooter? You probably think this is unfair. Those men, individually, were unlikely to overwhelm the shooter. But had they acted in concert they might have. Is it really fair to expect them to have acted in concert? Is it fair to justify killing Iraqi civilians because they have not risen up against the insurgents/terrorists? In reality, the reason we are in Iraq is the opposite of genocide. We are there to preserve life, hence our police action. Bush and McCain warn of blood running in the streets if we leave. We have destabilized a country, now we hope to restabilize it. It's a tall order to ask a military, that is being attacked, to sustain and preserve life. It is noble. Whether you think it is worth the sacrifice, no doubt, influences your opinion of whether we should leave or not. |
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At the very least, can't you even see why a person would choose to not fight? Does their decision to protect their family warrant their death as a "terrorist?" |
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Al-Quaeda attacked the US with airliners without warning or provocation. The terrorists are the enemy trying to kill American troops today.
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I realize I may sound like I think it's easy to say when not faced with the situation, but I honestly believe that I would not allow them to intimidate me.
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