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i wouldn't go so far as to say "get the hell out now!" but i do hope that whoever decides to go over there as a civilian knows the risks involved. there are people who will cut your freakin head off just for being born in the US. they don't care if you voted for Gore, they don't care if you're there to help, they don't care that you have family back home. sometimes i think in our comparatively docile lives here in the States (or nearly everywhere else in the western world), we fail to understand the violence that is part of life in some places in the world.
that being said, there is a good chance berg knew what the implications were and decided to go anyway. wow, what a desparately sad situation.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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