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Using the term "protection" for dropping bombs on people is also ridiculous
Mary Anne — (archived)

Marching into other nations and deposing their governments without an obvious and immanent threat is imperial behavior. It's using aggression not because we must, but because we can. Whether we stay or not is beside the point. We didn't like the government of Iraq, so we got rid of it by force of arms. What happens if the next government of Iraq is not one we like? Will we get rid of that one too?

Attempting to understand the reasons people resort to terrorism is not the same as making excuses for terrorist behavior. Taking responsibility for conditions that one's group has created which contribute to those reasons is also not the same as making excuses for terrorist behavior. Looking at a political situation and understanding that the only group whose behavior one can control is one's own is not "enabling" the other side.

Regards--
Mary Anne

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