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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen you demand revenge for James Foley, please know that it will lead to drone strikes that will
also kill innocent people. Blind vengeance leads to the deaths of innocent people.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Sounding like right-wingers in 2003 is all the rage now.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)Which we are fully in the midst of.
Response to Yavin4 (Original post)
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TheKentuckian
(24,936 posts)that it won't take a lot to radicalize.
It is easy to get caught up in a damn crusade and one that spirals with no way out other than to just do it.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)I just want to get that straight. It's just that we should pretend like we didn't see it, and then everything's okay? I'm confused about the position on that.
And by the way: the strikes started weeks ago, before Foley was killed. So our actions there are not revenge for him. There are many thousands who have been harmed, and that was the ostensible reason for the renewed strikes.
My question is simply (and I myself do not know the answer to this): under what circumstances, if any, would it be proper or advisable to take military action. Was it wrong in World War II? Would you have opposed FDR's dragging us into that war, in which we killed many innocent people? Is there ever a just cause for military action? (And yes, any military action will result in the deaths of some innocent people.)
I'm not condoning anything here; but neither am I condemning it. I'm just figuring things are a lot more complex in life than people would like to make them.
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)The whole point of this is to be provocative. These guys would dearly love for somebody to please bring them some Americans or other westerners to fight.