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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Ok, let me throw a slightly different question out there. If a country (let's say Communist China or a resurrected Soviet Russia,) whose government you have seen as contradictory to your personal political and religious values were the coutry in question (for the US, assume that they bullied Mexico into cooperating and were pouring over the border,) would you support an extremely corrupt US government who violated the human and civil rights of its citizens through indefinite martial law but still allowed you to freely practice your religion and vote in elections?
I'm trying to create a hypothetical situation in which you would be in the same situation as the Iraqis. The problem I'm having here is that I don't know of any TFP members who believe that the authority to rule in government comes solely from God, so we can't think in the same way. I'm trying this question because it puts us in a situation in which we are oppressed, but the alternative is a government that goes against our moral and ethical standards.
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You are grasping at straws I'm afraid.
Iraq has been a secular government for quite some time. So while you may have sunni's out of power fighting to get their power back, and you have imported religious terrorists from across the mideast, it’s a unique situation which doesn't translate well.
The closest real world example you could get would be the soviet resistance to the Nazi invasion, but since the Nazis were welcomed until it was learned they were worse than Stalin (at least worse than Stalin until after the war, then its very debatable) it doesn't work to compare it to Iraq.
So if I were an Iraqi citizen who knew anything about world history I'd be first in line to help the coalition.
There is no hypothetical comparision you can make to justify the terrorist attacks I'm afraid.