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Old 07-08-2005, 12:24 PM  
rickholio
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Originally Posted by Dominic_M
What's really sad about all this, is that 10 years from now, a bunch of orphaned Iraqi kids are going to grow up hating the West for killing their parents/relatives and possibly strike back at an Allied city. Morons with no sense of history will say "Those bastards! They attacked us because they're jealous of our freedom...yeah, that's it!". Then we'll attack them back (by 'them', I mean the entire country even though it's a select group responsible) and feel all self-rightious.
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." - John W. Gardner
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