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Originally Posted by sck5
You seem to not want to address the notion that it isnt "world opinion" I am trying to please. It is the population our enemies live in and which shelters them and which allows them to operate. Not that world opinion isnt important - Having good allies helped immensely to defeat the communists to take just one example. But the good will of an occupied population is a direct, life saving military asset.
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Anyone sheltering these people should be subjected to the same consequences.
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If even one roadside bomb hadnt been planted then maybe my cousin Bobby wouldnt have had half his head blown off. Maybe the guy with him wouldnt be dead. Maybe their driver wouldnt be injured. These are not airy fairy conjectural deaths. THEY ARE REAL ONES. And if maybe just one less person hated our guts this wouldnt have happened.
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We all hate to hear of American military deaths, but you've yet to link these murders to the notion that treating animals as if they're not animals would've prevented these deaths. If anything, the region's history, and your calls for a strong man to be brought back to power, show that they have no respect for what you're advocating -- they see it as a sign of weakness.
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Not torturing people saves lives.
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The wrong lives...
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Torturing may make you feel good that you are doing something but in the long run it does our servicemen and women more harm than good.
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If those with your outlook hadn't paralyzed our forces, much of the deaths you sight wouldn't have occurred. INdeed, if Truman and Ike had bothered to stand up to those USSR-backed elements that "nationalized" the wells, the canal, etc.; if we had retaliated for acts of terrorism ruthlessly back when those acts were of the blew-up-a-disco variety; if we had vaporized northwest Pakistan and Afghanistan when our embassies were blown up; etc., the region would be far better off -- and 9/11 would have never happened.