Well, that's a pretty good example of the issue I'm raising here, at least.
To say that "Abu Ghraib is an inevitable part of war", which I never said, has nowhere near the same meaning as "the events at Abu Grhraib are an essential part of American warfare", which I never said either. You're not arguing with me, you're arguing with something else, some amorphous, disembodied attitude that is not mine.
What I said was: "it appears that since Abu Ghraib you've decided you no longer want to be associated with any of this."
Now that things have gotten tough and dirty and events have happened that are distasteful and difficult to swallow, suddenly you're up in arms against people you previously seemed in general agreement with:
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Now you seem to immediately believe the worst of others you once got along with, you're putting the most contentious possible construction on the things they say, and you're accusing them of viewpoints that patently distortions of what they really hold to.
Again, something's changed, and to me it just seems very sudden and very jarring. But I'm just a casual, sometime observer. I don't get it, I don't understand it, but I've valued your posts and your input enough that my first reaction was concern.
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