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Originally posted by Locobot
lets talk about the relative morality of preemptively striking another country with full military force...
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I agree.
Or let's echo what was said earlier this morning on airamerica:
Our first move was to "decapitate" the head of the Iraqi military. Remember that first strike the evening before the war started? Yeah, that war, the one where we used "shock and awe" to command respect and terror from the opposition in the hopes of making them cringe in submission.
We weren't particularly worried about Hussein's wife, children, or anyone else who might have been in that complex we "beheaded." We had already convinced ourselves (collectively) that the whole lot of them were evil. It turns out that the person(s) we bombed that night were not Hussein. I never did find out who they were. They might have even been "innocent," but that never made the news. No one particularly cared.
We collectively watched the happenings on live television. As a nation, the more traumatic the shock, the more dramatic the awe, the better. Behead the enemy, shock them into submission, crush them until they are struck into awe at our magnificent power, turn the place into a glass sheet--and watch the whole thing live. The best, most popular, reality television show ever. Everyone I knew was glued to the television.
I'll repeat what I told most of the people around me then, that's a pretty sick mentality.