Re:How to take down an F-117
by _b8r0 on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @02:07PM
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The Turkish bombing of Kurdish targets at the same time is more of a complicate issue than you think, spanning 3 countries (Turkey, Iraq, Iran) with all of the regimes and local Kurds playing each other's strengths and weaknesses off against each other. I'm not saying what the Turks (or any other nation involved) did was right or wrong, just thought I'd add some context so people know that it wasn't just a straight Turks vs. Kurds (as a single unified entity) issue.
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You are right, it is never as black-and-white as we'd like to think.
But innocent civilians being killed are innocent civilians being killed. It doesn't matter who's killing or what color their skin or what religion they are. There are terrible killing and attrocities still going on in the world.
We should do something about it if we can. But if we don't or we can't. We shouldn't lie about it, and pretend we do while we have completely different motives for our foreign war "adventures"
I wouldn't mind if the government actually told everyone what its real motives are. Perhaps there will be less support for war, or perhaps there won't. At least we won't be lied to.