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when given the choice, people will always choose our vision of humanity if we continue to abide by our values and lead by example
I applaud your optimism but can’t help but feel that the sentence would read more accurately as “when given the choice, people will always choose our vision of humanity if we can figure out how to abide by it ourselves”
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So, what does this make you feel like doing, Jason Crow?
On July 6, 2008, a large number of Afghan civilians were walking the bride of a wedding ceremony to the groom’s village in an area called Kamala in Dih Bala district of the eastern province of Nangarhar. When the group stopped for a rest, it was hit in succession by three bombs from United States military aircraft. The first bomb hit a group of children who were ahead of the main procession, killing them instantly. A few minutes later, the aircraft returned and dropped a second bomb in the center of the group, killing a large number of women. The bride and two girls survived the second bomb, but were killed by a third bomb while trying to escape from the area.
Or this?
The Haditha incident (also called the Haditha killings or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children, all civilians, were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar.
Or this?
On April 4, 2010, whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks published a
classified video of a United States Apache helicopter firing on
civilians in New Baghdad in 2007. The video shows Americans shooting and killing 11 individuals who do not return fire. Two of those killed were Reuters’ employees, including 22 year old Reuters’ photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and his driver, 40 year old Saeed Chmagh. The video includes an audio recording of the internal commentary by the American soldiers before, during and after the shooting. The soldiers repeatedly request and are granted permission to open fire, encourage one another and joke about the dead and dying civilians. A total of 11 adults were killed. Two children, passengers in a van that arrived on the scene after the first bout of gunfire had ceased, were seriously injured when the Apache helicopter opened fire on their van.
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I have no doubt you well understand what “we” face in ISIS. But I’m also confident you haven’t the first clue what we own because of the brutal and criminal conduct that’s responsible for this blowback. You are right: we must fight these brutal men, be they in Mosul, in Tel Aviv, or in Washington DC.
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or, “people will always choose our vision of humanity as long as they don’t figure out we could give a rat’s ass about Muslims halfway around the planet who we despise to the point of using their religion as an epithet, but just pretend we care about so companies who pay no taxes can profit from the natural resources under their lands…”
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Dominionist alert?