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> That's the general theme of public discourse... Americans killing Muslims in Iraq are "soldiers", wherears Muslims killing Americans in the US are "terrorists

by aikah 11y ago

> That's the general theme of public discourse... Americans killing Muslims in Iraq are "soldiers", wherears Muslims killing Americans in the US are "terrorists". Americans aren't killing Muslims in Iraq just because they are muslims. That's a straw-man. > wherears Muslims killing Americans in the US are "terrorists" (Some) Muslim extremists certainly are killing americans because of what they are and what they believe in. They are effectively called terrorists because they don't kill soldiers. They go kill random civilians in the streets. A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened. Quit your post-modernist framework which is making you say despicable things frankly.

tomp 11y ago
> Americans aren't killing Muslims in Iraq just because they are muslims. Then s/Muslims/Iraqis/. But then, what about Palestine, Syria, Lybia, ...? On the other hand, I'm sure they aren't killing Americans because they're Americans either... but because they the agressors. > They go kill random civilians in the streets. What would you do, if a technologically-superior country was killing your friends, family, children? They fight any way they can, and hurt us where it hurts us most. > A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened. Wait, more than 150k civilians were killed in Iraq. I don't recall seeing that many war-crime trials.
- vonmoltke 11y ago
  > Wait, more than 150k civilians were killed in Iraq. I don't recall seeing that many war-crime trials. By who? The vast majority were killed by various insurgent and terrorist groups, and those groups are still killing thousands of people a year.
Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened. Such a great thing that we have such loose criteria on what it means to be a combatant.
oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
It's a pity that, whenever some idiot tries to set light to a mosque in a 'revenge' attack, it never seems to get described as a 'terrorist attack'. I don't know why that is.
- reitanqild 11y ago
  Where is this happening on a regular basis except in Muslim countries? Also FWIW I think my local news sources tend to write about it in about the same way they write about other forms of terrorism.
reitanqild 11y ago
Upvoted, you explained it very well. One other comment: > A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened. I'm sadly afraid this doesn't happens enough.

by aikah 11y ago

tomp 11y ago

> Americans aren't killing Muslims in Iraq just because they are muslims. Then s/Muslims/Iraqis/. But then, what about Palestine, Syria, Lybia, ...? On the other hand, I'm sure they aren't killing Americans because they're Americans either... but because they the agressors. > They go kill random civilians in the streets. What would you do, if a technologically-superior country was killing your friends, family, children? They fight any way they can, and hurt us where it hurts us most. > A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened. Wait, more than 150k civilians were killed in Iraq. I don't recall seeing that many war-crime trials.

vonmoltke 11y ago
> Wait, more than 150k civilians were killed in Iraq. I don't recall seeing that many war-crime trials. By who? The vast majority were killed by various insurgent and terrorist groups, and those groups are still killing thousands of people a year.

Lawtonfogle 11y ago

>A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened. Such a great thing that we have such loose criteria on what it means to be a combatant.

oneeyedpigeon 11y ago

It's a pity that, whenever some idiot tries to set light to a mosque in a 'revenge' attack, it never seems to get described as a 'terrorist attack'. I don't know why that is.

reitanqild 11y ago
Where is this happening on a regular basis except in Muslim countries? Also FWIW I think my local news sources tend to write about it in about the same way they write about other forms of terrorism.

reitanqild 11y ago

Upvoted, you explained it very well. One other comment: > A soldier that would do the same would be charged with war-crime, and it happened. I'm sadly afraid this doesn't happens enough.