I suppose we should have forseen that the regime in Iraq would defend itself by hiding behind its own civilian population. I suppose we might even have forseen that they would attack their own civilians to make the country ungovernable. I guess we should even have figured that since the enemy would count dead children, thier own dead children, as a propaganda victory that we should have modified our longstanding custom passing out candy to the children of countries our army is in. And, given the decades of propaganda and infantile facist fantansy that the people of Iraq have lived under for so long, we might even have forseen that the Iraqi people themselves would blame us when thier own former rulers kill Iraqi children. But I really don't see how we could have been expected to forsee that there would be people in our own society who, on seeing that our enemies murder scores of children gathered for free candy, would count this as evidence that we should have left Iraq in the hands of those same murderers.
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to put it simple man - no candy -> no dead children
to judge someone's behavior you need to know them first. americans are too concerned about themselves to know anything about other nations. call it envy if you like
To put is simple: candy -> dead children. Doesn't that say more about the people we are fighting than it does about us?
the emphasis was on the "->" sign
but sure it says a lot about those people. indeed, how can you hope to win a war against people who are willing to blow up their own children?
I suggest that you review "Apocalypse Now: Redux" - watch for the scene in which the Viatnamese cut off the arm of a child that was helped by the americans. Listen also to what the French were saying when the main character talked with them.
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