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Originally Posted by ikaris
But seriously though, do insurgents walk openly in the streets like that knowing American gunships are flying around? I have a feeling that insurgents tend to hide in the streets and do not openly walk around as shown in that video.
I would be more inclined to believe that they likely thought they wouldn't be attacked because ya know, they're civilians!
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What our feelings say or what we would do in situations are not good things to go by when trying to figure out what's going on in a situation so far removed from our personal experiences that it's impossible to say.
Maybe insurgents do walk around openly because they look like everyone else? Maybe the coverage at the time of the attack wasn't so much that at that point insurgents could walk around and have very little chance of being confronted or attacked.
There's a thousand implicit assumptions and judgments I make when I watch that video, and if I want to be fair and impartial I have to recognize them and recognize that me sitting here at my desk there are so many factors that I am unaware of.
That doesn't mean I don't hold an opinion on what happened, I just realize that my opinion is based on a lot of assumptions and my confidence in those assumptions is very low, so my opinion isn't (or shouldn't be) very strong; it can be altered either way with more information.