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To: ctdonath2
They're operating on a different set of axioms. They presume "war is bad", "war is worse than any other option", "war must be opposed at all costs", and "don't harm innocents/bystanders/noncombatants". It's just their basic starting point for whatever reason.

That's true, of course, but the "war" already happened. In 2003. That ship has sailed. What the people I'm talking about are obsessed with isn't even "a war" per se, it's a military occupation and reconstruction. The people opposed to this are so blinded (for whatever reason) that they don't even know what they're protesting. The "war" they're so against (they're still arguing about "WMDs") already took place. To listen to 99% of these people, it's as if they think that there's still a full-on "war" going on which they think can be "stopped" by pulling out our troops. (Paradoxically, these same people go on and on about how Iraq is in an unsolvable state of civil war.)

What I'm saying is, the simple belief that "war is bad" can't quite explain the obsession with the Iraq occupation.

172 posted on 03/08/2007 10:46:28 AM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Dr. Frank fan

I should have clarified.

They don't see a difference between "war" and "cleaning up the mess thereafter".


179 posted on 03/08/2007 10:58:54 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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