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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I'm not so sure. Taking away the context of the war completey really makes it possible to cast anyone involved from our side as a hero. It's hard to call someone a hero, even when they commit heroic acts, when they are part of a war-for-no-reason.
TM
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I'm not sure I agree, at least with respect to the Iraq War. I mean, I wouldn't call any Confederate soldier a "hero"* -- they were fighting on the side of evil. But while the Iraq war was stupid, counterproductive, not worth it, we never should have gone.... The people we were fighting, at least after the initial stages, were pretty evil themselves. If an American soldier gave his life to prevent the bombing of a Shiite gathering, would you say "yes, but he never should have been there so I can't say he's a hero"?
*Let me say right now that I find the whole "hero" talk pretty annoying. Hero this, hero that. It's not a word I use when not referring to sandwiches. But I'm responding in the vein of your comment.
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