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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Because perhaps:
(1) it angers me to no end that everyone around the world is so eager to pounce on every, single uncorraborated source that decries American acts of unbridled barbarism; and
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And yet it wasn't that way immediately after 9/11. What did we do to lose their support? Maybe it has something to do with the idiots who think Iraqis only respect force.
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(2) If the "bad guys" have such little regard for the lives of their own loved ones that they would use them as human shields, then I really don't care if any of them die either.
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Maybe we're losing their support because we're unable or unwilling to try to distinguish between the "bad guys" and wedding parties, and would rather use overwhelming force and let Allah sort them out. That seems to have been what happened at Abu Ghraib, too.
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Something tells me we would differ on the answer to this question - if OBL was found to be hiding out in a hospital or an orphanage, do you bomb the place to ruins?
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What's the alternative?
