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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Ilaine who wrote (22869)7/5/2006 11:39:36 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541344
 
I think we do not actually have a peace to win any more- and since our soldiers can't know which Iraqis are anti-American, it's easy to understand (though of course this is different from approving or excusing) they are seeing Iraqis in general as the enemy.

I wish it was possible to prevent such actions, but I don't think it will be. I think the brutality of the Iraqis who are arrayed against the US, or who are simply killing each other, pollutes the climate with such a miasma of brutality and violence that our soldiers will inevitably fall victim to these sorts of episodes- and the wide cultural rift only makes things worse.
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