[Vision2020] Humane interrogations work

[g. crabtree]

"Let's assume for a moment that terrorists are not cockroaches, but humans who like you and I have the same emotions of bitterness, anger and desire to retaliate."

Retaliate for what? Sorry, but I can't even begin to imagine flying jumbo jets into buildings full of innocents or strapping on a bomb and going out and deliberately killing women and children most of whom are my own countrymen. 

"Why do you think these people would commit such dastardly deeds, willing to kill other people? What specifics would drive these people to act so?"

According to Osama Bin-Laden, the justification to murder nearly 3000 innocent men, women, and children was that after the first gulf war we were not quick enough in removing all of our troops from Saudi Arabia to suit his tastes. Never mind that the Saudi government had made no request for us to speed up the rate at which our forces were to pull out. To the contrary, they were rather pleased to have us in country in the short term.

Also, he was miffed with our support for Israel, totally ignoring the fact that along with the aid we send to that country, we also spend billions in aid to Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia.

As you can see, I am rather at a loss. Please feel free to jump in and enlighten me as to why we were so richly deserving of radical muslim hatred and how the losses we sustained on 9/11 could be justified as simple pay back for our misdeeds. What is it that you imagine we might do that would sooth these peoples imagined slights?

g

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Clevenger" <garrettmc at verizon.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:11 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Humane interrogations work


> g,
> 
> Let's assume for a moment that terrorists are not cockroaches, but humans who like you and I have the same emotions of bitterness, anger and desire to retaliate.
> 
> Why do you think these people would commit such dastardly deeds, willing to kill other people? What specifics would drive these people to act so?
> 
> I'm asking to see if we could reason as to why we live in a world seemingly filled with violence due to humans striking fellow humans, so as to possibly extricate ourselves from this deadly spiral...
> 
> gclev
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