I bet if you did a poll fewer than one in ten Americans would even know what we are talking about. They know nothing of this case.
There is no outrage over what the Jihadis do because everyone in this country has such low expectations for them that they never fail to meet them. Their behavior is expected. If we were to start behaving like them, then many Americans would express outrage because that behavior would not be in synch with what we believe Americans do.
I suggest if you guys want to support the troops you go to sites where these anti-American folks hang out and piss them off when they make stupid anti-american statements. But some of the people here to whom this has to be a MSM conspiracy and even if they did it, so what, make the rest of us conservatives look like idiots.
I think the ones that find themselveslooking like idiots are ones that ignore equality. Day after day and month after month I see opposition to the USA for this incident and that incident.
OK that is fine, I can understand that and the reasons for it, including the one you offered in your post. I offer that it is time to start looking at this objectively and evenly. Jihadis are to be held to the same standards we are when it comes to human rights and the international rules of war.
If we are operating within those rules with some mistakes and the jihadis are not then I offer it needs to be talked about in that light. The point I am trying to make is that it is utterly rediculous to make so much out of a couple incidents to the point it gives the impression we are doing this kind of thing all over the country and all over the world all the time. After all it isn't us that is doing such a thing and it IS the jihadis.
People may expect the jihadis to act in this way but that is a cop out when it comes to using that as an excuse not to rail against them as the USA is railed against for such limited incidents especially when proven those incidents are prosecuted.....not to mention rail against the USA when indeed all that exists are acusation that are to date unproven.
As for a poll and Americans knowing about what we are discussing.....one reason they do not know is because of the way the press presents what is happening. Not unlike some posters here and elsewhere on the internet present things like this.
When more folks point out that jihadis are doing this evey day and the outrage needs to be sent their way instead of "expecting"it from them we all will be better off.
Teorrorists do what they do because people make excuses for them. They will continue to do what they do until the world stands united against them and they are crushed and abhored by all that oppose them. They use "hold the USA to a higher standard" as a great propaganda product. The very sad thing is that people buy into that without even thinking that is what they are doing.
I argue that we are all equal and we should all be held to the same standards. Equality is what America stands for right?