Cannot Americans understand that our invading and occupying of countries understandably is the most effective way of creating enemies?
Put yourself in in the shoes of an Iraqi or Afghan father the night before the US invasion: You wake to the sound of bombs falling on your own city and to your entire neighborhood in rubble. You survive, are dazed, hurt, but you get up frantically to see if your family and neighbors survived. You search to the rubble but only find unrecognizably dismembered parts of people you care for. Mostly everyone you care for is dead. You spend the next hours in an daze and shuffling between deep feelings of anger, mourning and frustration. You contemplate killing yourself and whether your life has any meaning left. But then the people responsible for killing your family - US troops - will land shortly in your country and begin to set up a permanent base.
Would you be able to somehow restrain yourself from seeking to avenge your family by killing as many US soldiers as you possibly can?
Now imagine that instead of Afghanistan or Iraq being bombed, let's say that whichever American city you live in is suddenly bombed and occupied by a hypothetically infinitely stronger military power. You wake to find the dismembered body parts of your family strewn across streets and rubble. Wouldn't you do all you can do to avenge the death of your family?
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