Kasz216 said:
I tottally don't get what your point is though. You think it's hypocritical that we feel worse against people trying to attack us... and as bad vs people not attacking us? I'd argue that the "attacking us" angle would negate hypocrisy on that.
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If they attack us on our home soil, then yes, there really is no question about it that they are acting as a terrorist.
But to claim that anyone is a radical and extreme terrorist who attacks foreign soldiers on their soil who have destroyed much of their country and many of the people close to them in an "attempt" to liberate that country is taking a simplistic view of the situation. I am not saying the people in that foreign country should attack the foreign soldiers, but I can understand why they do it.
I'll just give an example. Say China helped us dethrone a dictator who had taken control of our government. But in the process China had destroyed a great deal of our land, and killed millions of innocent Americans while trying to depose the dictator. And then after that was all over they left troops here for a decade. Sometimes the troops would accidentally kill a bunch of innocent Americans while trying to root out any of the remaining followers of the dictator. Do you think Americans would hold it against other Americans who shot some Chinese troops who had killed their families or blew up some of the Chinese troops vehicles in an attempt to get them to leave? Are they terrorists?
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