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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
Have you not read right here in this forum, some claim that the terrorists are justified to purposely target and kill innocents due to former US ME policy?
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Anyone in the mideast has the right to defend their land(s) from an invader, be it the US government or one single American who shows up to take what is not his to take. No American who goes abroad has the right nor should he have any expectation that the US government will use force of arms to retrieve him or extract him from difficulty.
I have never defended the muslim arab attacks in 2001, but I have and will continue to explain why they occured, and why if I were in their shoes I would consider doing the same thing.
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Arguing about how to best deal with the ME makes sense. Claiming that acts of terror against US citizens is somehow justified OTOH, is just disgusting.
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When we force the US goernment to leave the mideast, never to return it will be with the caveat that any future acts of terror will be treated harshly. It will also be with the issuance of offers of reparation payments, not to any government, but to the tens of thousands of individuals harmed by the US government worldwide. I expect that to run into the trillions of dollars.
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I understand why Pat spews this crap.
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We'll see.
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He hates the US govt with a passion (he probably got screwed somehow by the govt at some point in his life).
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There may be no American that hasn't been harmed by the US government at one point or another, or that will be harmed at some point in the future, or both.
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But I truly do not understand how some can equate barbarous acts of terrorism purposely directed at innocents with military strikes aimed at taking down thugs.
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Because your morals are either part time, ambivalent, or nonexistent. Bombing campaigns are the ultimate form of terrorism in that they're almost always wrapped in claims of justification and abundant "We're so sorry" accompanied by crocodile tears. Nothing could be further from the truth. Aerial bombardment today is nothing beyond being an official government terror campaign.