Arkanor
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May 4, 2005, 9:26 AM
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We're going about terrorism the wrong way. We keep bombing them, and that's just going to make it worse. We need to ensure they are educated, make peace among the hatred, and try to be the 'good guy' - otherwise, nobody will win this conflict. It can only get worse if the US doesn't start looking back at the past.
Xbot, that's really sweet and utopian and all, but it's never going to happen. How else do you expect our people to handle attacks by terrorists/insurgents? Hold hands and pray? Give them candy bars and try and 'Americanize' them? These guys - the ones who are really behind the unrest, and the ones who are probably going to remain in power unless we take them out - hate the United States. No amount of education and 'making peace among the hatred' is going to change that.
If our personnel 'keep bombing them', it's because they (the American soldiers) are being provoked into action by attacks on their vehicles, bases, or personnel. Let's not forget that the United States, even if it really has no business being in Iraq (and it doesn't) didn't start this. Osama did on September 11, when 3000 innocent civilians died. As we see in the newspapers, Iraq now contains a large number of foreign terrorists, even if no WMDs were discovered there, and this in itself provides a justification for the United States to enter the country, considering that we are in a war on terror.
What exactly is your definition of 'being the good guy', if not what we're doing now? We've deposed two tyrannical and oppressive regimes, raised the quality of living in two countries, battled terrorists and the remnants of the previous regimes, and tried to protect civilians of foreign countries from attacks by - surprise, surprise - their own countrymen. Doesn't sound as if we're the 'bad guys' to me. After all, we haven't started carpet bombing, didn't flatten Najaf rather than slowly take the city from the ground, and throughout this war have shown a remarkable concern for the lives of noncombatants. Much, much different from the conduct of American forces 30-odd years earlier in the latter days of Vietnam.
(This post was edited by Arkanor on May 4, 2005, 9:29 AM)
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