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To: Architect
Why is it so impossible for Americans to understand that killing a million Iraqis turns all Iraqis into implacable enemies?

It isn't, of course, but remind yourself that we haven't killed anything on the order of a million Iraqis; that's simply a number some propagandist picked out to sound good. How many people believe it, though? (Please, don't rejoin that "our" trade embargo is responsible for Iraqi kiddies dying from lack of medicine in those numbers - for one thing it isn't "our" embargo, it's the U.N.'s, for another, such numbers are purely speculative in any case).

And, by the way, not everyone in Iraq mourns the demise of the Republican Guard, those that actually did die, that is. They were noted for their enthusiastic repression of the Shiite population, at the very least.

But other than that, I agree with you, at least insofar as there's actually U.S. foreign policy activity that people don't like. Lots of people; you can't please everyone, but not everyone responds by murdering 5000 innocent people, and we absolutely have not. I'm not buying the moral equivalency of that activity with the pitfalls and mistakes of five decades of U.S. foreign policy, it's simply not the same thing.

184 posted on 09/13/2001 9:31:54 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
I agree with you, at least insofar as there's actually U.S. foreign policy activity that people don't like. Lots of people; you can't please everyone, but not everyone responds by murdering 5000 innocent people, and we absolutely have not. I'm not buying the moral equivalency of that activity with the pitfalls and mistakes of five decades of U.S. foreign policy, it's simply not the same thing.

The United States has repeatedly bombed and starved innocents around the world. The generally-accepted figure is that 750,000 to a 1.5 million Iraqis have died due to the US embargo (and, yes, it is a US embargo - the UN was bullied into accepting it). Not to mention that 200,000 were killed in the Gulf War, many without any reason except slaughter. What exactly do you think the difference is?

193 posted on 09/13/2001 9:52:24 AM PDT by Architect
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