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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher is really turning into a vile racist [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)esp. in the 15th year of a "War on Terror" that has now totally engulfed the ME and that, I now hear, has killed over a million so-called "Islamic Terrorists" (along with collateral damage, of course - our smart bombs are smart, ethical, the epitome of justice, but you know what they say about having to break some eggs to make an omelette). Over a million. Not reaching Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia proportions quite yet, but getting there in its own unrelenting righteous way.
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But then, we civilized modern westerners know that unlike us the Muslims have been killing each other for centuries, and that's the true explanation for this ongoing slaughter. We civilized westerners with our superior western values know that the problem is that there are too few moderate Muslims in a sea of crazies. We civilized westerners with our superior western values sympathize with moderate Muslims, and moderate rebels. They are most like us, and they are the ones we arm - which is why they are "moderate". We civilized westerners with our superior western values know that our politicians are OK, honest, secular folk, and the problem is the mullahs. We know who is guilty, not us with our superior civilization and ethics, it's the mullahs. Just the word 'mullah' proves it. We civilized westerners with our superior western values know that the entire black site kidnap-torture system was a few bad apples, and doesn't represent anything like an actual plan, an actual systematic program. That has to be true because we're civilized and have western values, and because the arabs, I mean muslims, I mean Islamic Terrorists, I mean the enemy in the great and unending War on Terror, are the ones stuck in the 14th century with their mullahs and their barbarism, who do the torturing and murdering. The terrorizing. Not us. We civilized westerners with our superior western values would never lie to the world just to start a war against an innocent population. That couldn't be. Uh uh. We were fooled, we were tricked! And it was a previous administration.