making the world a better place too. So he was trying to be the good
guy wasn't he?
The only distinction I am able to make is the difference between
cooperating in genocide and cooperating in a possible beneficial
invasion. US forces have killed civilians, yes, but not systematically
and deliberately, by the boxcar, the way the Nazis did.
I am trying and failing to imagine how this would look to me if I were
poor and Iraqi.
Would I make this distinction?
Dana
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:16:02 -0400, Jochem van Dieten
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> G wrote:
> > Yep they are....but they are still Iraqi citizens, no matter what. And
> > Iraqi groups attempting to sway opinion by killing their own citizens
> > who have different opinions than them.....seems like terrorism.
>
> I find that one of the hardest issues. It smells like terrorism, it tastes
> like terrorism, but I can't help but think back to WWII when the Dutch
> resistance attacked collaborators in the Dutch police. The only difference
> between those is that the Germans were the bad guys and the US tries to be
> the good guy.
> But isn't the distinction supposed to be about the methods, not about the
> cause?
>
> I really don't know the answer to this one.
>
> Jochem________________________________
>
>
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