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The mentality whether it's their culture or not of devalueing life based on the honor that life brings to the family - that is wrong. Wrong in that when we begin to devalue life to the point that I am going to kill you simply because you "shame" the American way by burning our flag or some other thing then we have nothing standing between us and killing anyone and everyone we dislike. What kind of world would we have then. If she was raised in a family that valued life so little then of course sacrificing her life was a pittance let alone her willingness to sacrifice the lives of our American soldiers. I do believe we need to restrict the military power of these people for our own safety. As far as teaching them better "culture" we cannot. It doesn't matter how long we stay there and "control" these kamakazi attitudes the moment we leave the control will collapse onto their own values once again. Look what happened when Russia converted from their strict rule. The collapsed into chaos for a while until they learned to rule themselves. We are not helping by staying there. We are only protecting the rest of the world from this kind of lack of respect for life. To me every life is important. The only time I would justify taking a life is in protecting another one or when someone has already premeditated and taken another life. That attitude engenders no respect in me for that person.
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"Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama
My Karma just ran over your Dogma. 
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