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In reply to the discussion: I knew - KNEW - the guilt trolls would show up before long. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,218 posts)..are "minimizing grief" in Boston.
That's your Straw Man.
You in fact are the one minimizing - the many more child deaths done in your name by drone attacks. By firing a shot over the bow...a warning that fellow DUers dare not use this incident for a quite natural thought process and go beyond our VERY REAL OUTRAGE at the Boston bombings. The difference is some of us don't stop there, wallowing in our hatred and anger at the "other". Some of us naturally are reminded of and feel empathy for those families wailing and holding their bloodied lifeless infants from a US (what feels like a terrorist) attack on them. We cannot ignore the hypocrisy of immersing ourselves in a kind of exclusive and cordoned-off grief, when we know full well that our government is guilty of much worse.
Some of us dare to question why?...why would any person or persons feel this kind of passion, misguided and wrong though it is, to carry out such a abomination? And that maybe, just maybe, if we balanced out the need for revenge and bloody retribution, with some serious soul searching about things like blowback from thoughtless and callous foreign policies, and reverse those, we may stop at least some of any future attacks. And just like the Newtown tragedy was the exact right time to talk about gun control, this is the right time to talk about our own complicity in causing the same kind of anguish x 1000 to other families.
So please do not infer that those that bring up Pakistan drone attacks on children overseas are ignoring innocent American victims. It is precisely those victims and potential ones in the future, that we not only care about, but by shining a light on the hypocrisy, are trying to prevent from being victims of terrorist attacks in another American city in the future.
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