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Originally posted by nfotiu@Aug 19 2004, 01:02 PM
How arrogant is it to tell someone that they should be appreciative for what we have forcibly done to you?
If all that was written in the article happened to them, then the fact that they think they are worse off living in Iraq in the state it was left for them. That kind of commentary must be tough to take for people who justify the war and all its casualties by thinking that it was done for their own good.
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I don't think it would make me blink.
Sometimes people just don't get it, and won't agree with something that many find logical because they've been conditioned to think otherwise.
This team was terrorized and tortured ... that's pretty much a fact. Now they are living in a posh olympic village in Greece competing for their country on the national stage. If they don't see that as an uptick in life that doesn't make their view right in anyway, it's just a very vivid portrait on just how ingrained an anti-West bias has become in their culture.
My wife's friend is engaged to a nice Romanian fellow. He opposes the Iraq war and we had a civil conversation about it. I asked "isn't it better to get rid of a dictator that is terrorizing and murdering you're own people, regardless of how he's removed" He said that he and his family would rather face a lifetime under the will of Ceaucescu then be liberated by Americans.
It's how he was brought up.