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Victor_c3

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2. I'm willing to bet for the same reason you'll see no more than a handful of replies to this thread
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 06:12 AM
Apr 2013

I don't think people can connect with numbers of casualties like that. How many Americans truly are upset about the widespread death and destruction we caused in Iraq? If we as an American public don't give a damn about more than 100,000 dead Iraqis, what makes anyone think that we actually give a damn about 70,000 dead Syrians?

People just can't connect with the what violence like that means or they are too focused on their own immediate lives to give a damn.

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I'm just going on record here that I'm fully against involving our military in Syria. Yes, it is appalling, how did the last war we involve ourselves in turn out?

War weary troops going to Syria will treat them no different than we treated Iraqis or Afghans. We'll end up with the same failure in Syria as we have seen in our other wars.

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