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Originally Posted by Mark McDonnell
'And a great deal of currency is gained in suicide bombings even if it is foreign to our sense of honor and our accepted means of killing.'
I assume by 'our' here, you're referring to human beings with any shred of decency and sanity.
But I take your point about 'Bub'. Fair enough.
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"Our" means that I also find suicide bombings disgusting and foreign to my imagination. But I find myself reacting that way to all modern bombardment from above and below. You know, like naplam. Dropping gel gasoline on top of living beings from airplanes and burning them alive if they happen to be in the forests you need to clear. It is remarkable how our stories function to allow a hierarchy of violences that seems so clear from the armchair. But can a primate's nervous system distinguish between the pain caused by a cruise missile and that caused by a bomb vest as the respective bits of burning metal pass through it? Does that mean I can't see the difference Islamofascism and...say...Rojava's brigades. No. I am willing to take sides. But I won't lie to myself about the levels of humanity or sanity in all of our modern weapons systems or pretend that I have any idea who is actually the "good guy" when a bomb is dropped from twenty thousand feet.
"I can only imagine how this thread will go."
Bill, the thread went the way you forced it to go. There is no Left movement here apologizing for NK or sympathetic with its regime. But by force feeding people a cartoon they eventually balked. What is it you need to hear from folks here to assure you that there is a diversity of views of the so-called left but a common ground of mostly pretty good folks who just want to leave a better world than the one they found.