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It's less of 'will they put a bullet in you' and more of 'Iran is the worlds greatest expert in the development and use of IEDs explicitly designed to maim and
by travmatt 10y ago
It's less of 'will they put a bullet in you' and more of 'Iran is the worlds greatest expert in the development and use of IEDs explicitly designed to maim and murder American forces, as in they have engineering staff embedded with insurgent groups teaching new ways of piercing American armored personnel carriers.'
- FireBeyond 10y agoThat wasn't a literalism. Of course I'm aware of the use of IEDs as a contrast to the traditional firefight. But saying that forces on the ground are the best and most objective at assessing who is in the right and the wrong in these conflicts, who is 'good' and 'bad' is simply farcical, because all of the indoctrination and (indeed necessary) biases ("identify this person/group as bad, as they are a direct threat to my life, even though their overarching motivations may be the most noble") warp their perspective.
- travmatt 10y agoI can understand the notion that there is enough fault to go around, and that every group is incentivized to see the fault in every other group. But my point is that Iran is unique in that it foments religious terrorism as matter of state policy unmatched in the world. Quds forces aren't exploiting religious people for their ends, they are true believers who are actively trying to bring their Islamist revolution to the rest of the world in a systematic and patient way. A subjective and clearheaded analysis of available facts must lead to the conclusion that it's a literal terrorist state, and I think the poster you responded to is trying to dispel the false equivalency and 'what-aboutism' so prevalent in this thread and Chomsky-ist worldviews.
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