Re: Well, help me understand.
As every nation in the world except the US knows, the way we have acted in the last 15 or so years has engendered much hate and many enemies. Even from people who where initially on our side. They will visit violence upon America and American interests and it will be understandable.
I see it the same way but want to add the hatred goes back farther than 15 years- before the wars. The resentment then didn't stem from playing "Wackamole" with them now.
You'll never acknowledge this, but to fight an enemy without a uniform in house to house engagements and not on a battlefield is going to require the killing of the people they're hiding behind.
Look at the B-52 carpet bombing. That’s precise? Cluster bombs in cities. Napalm. A proud history of terrorism, from Dresden, Hamburg, Agent Orange, “Shock and Awe”. Attacking innocent families at night, even the rape and killing of that little girl. All forgotten and forgiven.
There you go again. Quit trying to tell me there is a moral way to fight a war and moral ways to kill people. I don't buy it.
Robert Bales served 3 tours in Iraq and was sent to Afghanistan under protest. He acted alone, not in the service of the US government. It's been described as a rampage. In this case,America did not "target" civilians.
And we whine and howl when someone hits us a little. True, it’s a tragedy on a personal level, absolutely nothing compared to what the US has and is perpetrating.
When it comes to war, you either have a desire to see our country somehow perform morally in your eyes, or you belong with those that danced in the streets on 911. I'll assume the former.