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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
What Charlatan said.
I hate the the pretentious airs of self-righteous surprise I hear from so many people on this topic.
May I ask you American readers to cast your eye inwards and backwards to your own history, when your own country was born from "freedom fighters" (what Bush and Cheney would today call terrorists), fighting from within the civilian population against a large, powerful, foreign and very rich "invading" power.
I'm no apologist for Hezbollah, but I can't stand self-righteous hypocrisy. And, to be blatantly honest, US foreign policy and much of its public opinion currently reeks of it.
Mr Mephisto
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Ok this pissed me off enough to post in the paranoia board.
Go show me where the revolutionary fighters in the US tried to hide in civilian areas to increase civilian deaths or used their own children as suicide bombs. Horrible things can happen in war, but such actions were NEVER the policy of the US forces. You will note the battles were fought almost entirely in the fields, NOT in the cities.
You are an apologist for Hezbollah, you are condemning the US here, not Hezbollah, you are saying they are the same as the US revolutionaries. I can't stand such awful, self-righteous and off base moral equivalence where there is no such equivalence.
Whats worse is that by your twisted logic, we would not be able to take sides or pass moral judgement on something like slavery today since slavery was allowed in the United States 135 years ago.
If you had a point besides 'The US is like Hezbollah' I missed it entirely and if that was in fact your point you know where you can put it.