An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

Re:An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Pr... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:20PM (#21714713)

>My country* was repeatedly bombed by terrorists, explicitly supported by Americans (but probably not the actual USA government). I always get incredulous at the hypocrisy when Americans talk about how 9/11 made them feel angry.

Really?!

You guys treated the Irish like crap for generations. It should come as no surprise that there was no shortage of ex-pats willing to send a buck to help them wage war on you.

>I'm not saying my country didn't do things to deserve this. Or that we were innocent victims of unprovoked foreign aggression. But then, can the USA say the same? Was 9/11 really unprovoked?

You can certainly make the argument that 9/11 is a response to our prior actions in the region but whether that is true or not will not make the people who feel attacked feel any less attacked. This is a complex issue about which reams upon reams have been written and I doubt anything we say here will do it justice.

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Re:An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Pr... by Mirioron on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:02PM (#21715211)

I think both of your responses here apply to both situations. Your comment about how people who felt attacked won't feel any less attacked applies to the British as well when it comes to the IRA. Your comment about how the British treated the Irish poorly applies to the US in the Middle East as well. Maybe not quite to the same degree, but still.

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