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Originally Posted by Psycho Dad
'Us against them 'them' has been used for centuries to motivate people against others. However I doubt it is going to be the deciding factor to get that guy off the fence to set a roadside bomb.
Even Japanese soldiers and civilians in WWII were conditioned to believe that American soldiers were going to rape the women and kill the children.
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if you really think that all those peoples' opinions of the american soldiers (and now possibly american people in general) who have been directly affected by this havent turned against the occupying force, then i dont know what will.
no matter how pro american someone was, if their mother, brother, son etc was killed in this incident, you dont think it'd motivate them to get off that fence?
what i do want to point out is that this incident occured in a neighbourhood. you'll see on one of the corners there's a mosque, so we can assume that there were people around, most likely people that knew each other.
so i can fathom someone running towards gunfire to help save the life of someone they knew, or were family. stranger things have happened than someone risking life and limb to save a wounded or dying person . i guess i have to ask myself the same question, whether or not id run into still-smokin battlefield and save the life of somebody if my kids were in the car, id say im not sure.
but what we cant do is assume that the only ones that would do that are hardened terorists or policemen and firemen etc.