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I can't fathom of having a world-view as simplistic as the one espoused by neocon war on terror-ists.
We were just sitting here minding our own business twiddling our thumbs going "doo-de-doo-de-doo" when suddenly and for no reason evil madmen rained death down upon our heads. Why? Because they're evil, that's why, and that's what evil people do. King George told us, he said, "These people hate freedom, and we love freedom, and that's where the clash occurs." They're bad. And we're good. So now since we're good and they're bad, we need to occupy a country that had nothing to do with it because it used to be run by another bad guy.
I don't believe our military engages in indiscriminate murder. I think our administration's decision to flex its muscle in Iraq was indiscriminate and unconsidered and led to vast civilian casualties, and vast casualties of "enemy combatants" who were perfectly peaceful individuals prior to our occupation. So it amounts to much the same thing. But I think the soldier with his boots in the sand is doing the best he can do, given the job he's been asked to accomplish.
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