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Emotional Video of the Victims of Paris Attacks ISIS Bombings (Original Post) BeyondGeography Nov 2015 OP
It's painful to watch passiveporcupine Nov 2015 #1
Well said BeyondGeography Nov 2015 #2
+1000 blackspade Nov 2015 #4
I wish I could rec this countless times. Unknown Beatle Nov 2015 #5
What really bothered me was there was a terrorist attack in Beruit passiveporcupine Nov 2015 #6
Where's the outrage when US drone strikes Unknown Beatle Nov 2015 #7
YEP passiveporcupine Nov 2015 #8
Beautifully moving. blackspade Nov 2015 #3

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
1. It's painful to watch
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 06:23 PM
Nov 2015

But I think it helps to see the faces of the real people (not just numbers) who died from this tragedy. We should be doing this for all tragedies, even when they happen in Syria or other Muslim countries. They die just like we do. Their families are destroyed as well.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
6. What really bothered me was there was a terrorist attack in Beruit
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 10:24 PM
Nov 2015

the day before the Paris attacks. Where are the photos...where is the outrage? Only 43 dead and 240 wounded...not bad enough?

It's like it only counts if it happens in a 1st world country.

There have been 20 terror attacks just this month...more than one a day already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_2015

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
7. Where's the outrage when US drone strikes
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 10:54 PM
Nov 2015

kill innocent civilians gathered in groups? Ninety percent of drone strikes kill innocent civilians.

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
8. YEP
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 10:56 PM
Nov 2015

Why not use intelligence to capture these people instead of blindly blowing them up? Maybe that's too dangerous for us, but then why aren't we working with the countries where the terrorists are harbored, and let them go in and capture them?

I don't know what the answer is, but killing innocent people in the name of self-defense does not work for me.

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