Agreed, both the educated and uneducated. The soldier should have know to keep his distance from this girl, that being said, I think we need to pull out and let them kill each other.
We Can Not ‘pull out.’ President Bush has said America’s duty is to bring Democracy to the world.
More than a hundred years ago, Rudyard Kipling spoke of ‘the white man’s burden.’ Today we know that was a rascist statement. We know that not only White Men can be civilized. Today, we should speak of the Burden of the West to civilize and democratize our brothers who suffer under superstition and tyranny.
Not only will we be doing good for them, but we will ensuring they will never again threaten us or our friends.
“I think we need to pull out and let them kill each other.”
OMG. I beseech you to learn about radical Islam and its “God-given mission”. It’s not about killing each other, that’s just distracting fallout, it’s about killing ALL non-Muslims (Israel AND the West being top priorities)and re-establishing Islam as the power dominating the planet. Read their teachings, listen to/read the experts and scholars on this, of which there are many (and a significant of former Muslims themselves).
Because we made the mistake of pulling out of Afghanistan immediately after defeating the Russions there, Bin Laden and Al Queda along with the Taliban, established a firm foothold and safe haven in our void. It haunts us to this day, but to make the same error this time quite possibly will be fatal.
The real reason we are in Iraq is to establish a working front against these terrorists. We need to preemptively get to them before they get to us more than they already have. This war is only a piece in the puzzle, my friend. We still have much to change as far as domestic security, but this war is certainly not a mistake by any stretch of the logical and realistic imagination.
The soldier should have know to keep his distance from this girl,....
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I got the impression that there was no relationship whatsoever. They had conversations, perhaps only one, that someone reported to the murderer. The soldier may have been totally unaware of the girl’s crush on him.
I cannot get my brain around the barbarity of these people and their death cult.