[ACC25025]

Juat take a look at how the various posters are continuing the double standard: 1)America, and thus all Americans, are always innocent and acting out of solely the purest of motives. This is blatantly untrue, as anyone who has read even the tiniest bit of history should know. 2)Bin Laden’s people targeted civilians while the US does not. Now while the second part is somewhat true (but only in this very limited instance, the US military DID, in fact, target civilians during World War II, Korea, Vietnam,and the invasion of Panama), the first is not. Sheesh, how blind can you be? The PENTAGON was bombed, ferpetessake, the biggest military target around. And as anyone who knows military doctrine can tell you, economic centers like the World Trade Center ARE prime military targets of the first order, just like their civilian employees are. The US military is apparently also zeroing in on economic targets themselves in Afghanistan, such as power stations and oil depots. Yes, they are trying to avoid loss of civilian life, but not for any noble reasons. They are afraid of the public reaction in Arabic countries that are allied with the US. 3)American lives are apparently worth more than those of people in other countries to most Americans. This has a long history in the US. During the Vietnam War, ‘Vietnamization’ or the substituting of South Vietnamese soldiers for American ones, was OK with the vast majority of the US. Once Asian people were being killed in vast numbers instead of Americans, the protests against the war in Vietnam dropped to nothing. Some people apparently do think Afghani lives don’t count as much. As long as the numbers of dead innocents don’t rise too high or become too embarassing, the attitude of most Americans will stay the same. That is just plain sickening, to me at least. All human life should be equally valued. I’d like to see Bin Laden taken alive and put on trial myself. It’d be the only way to definitively prove we are not as bad as he is. And the way we’ve backed Israel uncritically while they kill Palestinians with guns and bullets we gave them, we have been.

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Name : ACC25025, Race : Mexican and American Indian, Age : 36, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad student in history, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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