Denial? Why don't you take your own advice. Are we not the aggressors? Did we not invade 2 countries to which we never declared war on? Where are the WMD's? If they are non existent then why are we still there? What threat does a 3rd world country in shambles pose to us? We are in Afghanistan because of the "evil" Taliban government. What business do we have telling other sovereign nations what kind of government they can implement and doing it by force? Isn't the official documented civilian deaths in Iraq over 100,000? How many innocent people do you really think have been slaughtered? If we are there to help the Iraqis rebuild then why aren't we doing this to all 3rd world countries?
Now we have Iran bordered on both sides and they are talking about going to war with them. Debating imposing trade sanctions on them which will escalate us into a war. Meanwhile our Ally, Israel, has been carpet bombing, phosphorus bombing, and slaughtering Palestinians with technology and military equipment we supplied. They shoot a few rockets in retaliation and they are deemed as the "evil doers." I'm so sick and tired of listening to people brush over everything with simplicity. Islam Bad, America Good. Sometimes I wake up and honestly feel like I'm in the movie Idiocracy with peoples rationale.
Maybe the guy had family in the middle east. Perhaps they were part of the "collateral damage." I served a tour in Iraq and Afghanistan while being stationed state side at ft hood. I saw many things over there that you would not believe or be proud to be affiliated with. We have been fucking up people in Afghanistan for 8 years and Iraq for 6. How long do you think those people are going to stand having their lives ripped apart by American intervention until they say enough is enough?
I'm not picking sides here, I'm just laying out some facts. Personally, I think all religion warps the mind and don't condone any of it. You follow that path and all you are going to see are rigid dichotomies. I don't mean to sound like an asshole, sometimes it just comes out that way. So I hit the two taboo topics, time for me to crawl back into my man cave. Anyways, I'm off to roll one up and do some star gazing.
"We don't do body counts" -- General Tommy Franks