Reply #15: Freedom Fighters?

[Lithos]

Oh please.

Maybe an extremely small handful view the conflict in a way which would match your idea of "Freedom Fighters" which probably means the definition of opposing colonialization. But if you read the news, that ain't how it is working and repeating such naif notions is extremely non-helpful.

Iraq has degenerated into a civil war not between an insurgency and a colonizing power, but a VERY secular civil war between many different religious groups who feel they are empowered for whatever reason to destroy any non-conformists. Freedom isn't what most of these groups want. This is not a two sided war where the US and the current Iraqi government is on one side and the militants are on the other, rather this is the kind of war where the US is sitting in in the middle of MANY armed groups including the current Iraqi government who are taking pot-shots at each other each and every opportunity they can take. This is the tragedy that people warned Bush would happen if he chose the path he ultimately took the US down.

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