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04-24-2024, 10:11 PM
This post was last modified 04-24-2024, 10:22 PM by TheRedneck.
(04-24-2024, 11:45 AM)putnam6 Wrote: You speak as if the future is already decided, I don't believe that yet..
The details may be fluid, and the timeline may be unspecified, but the events are all lining up far too perfectly to be happenstance.
We are on a course. It can perhaps be slowed or accelerated, and perhaps the names are not yet sure, but we will get to the destination.
TheRedneck
(04-24-2024, 11:57 AM)Byrd Wrote: Firstly, the video should be confirmed... too many people take for granted any video posted with an explanation but don't actually check to see if the video really IS from that location or time.
Second -- no offense meant here but you apparently weren't around in the 1960's. These protests are pretty mild compared to the ones against the Vietnam War. College students have ALWAYS tended to protest wars (yes, even WWII and WWI), so when your favorite news sources start yowling about out of control universities, take a deep breath and go read about the sixties.
Third, there's no "good guys" in this conflict, except perhaps the poor children that are dying from military action and from starvation and disease. That's something that should outrage all of us.
Firstly, agreed... but there's an awful lot of these kinds of videos floating around of late. Do you suggest they are all fake?
Secondly, the actions of those protestors in the Vietnam era were beyond despicable. I wouldn't exactly use that example to justify future actions.
Third, there's never "good guys" in war, neither are there winners in war. There can be justified actions, however, and one side may indeed be the primary aggressor. Just like one side will usually lose less than the other when all is said and done. That's what makes war a thing to be avoided. Attempts to justify unjust actions only prolongs war, because no war can continue without public support (or at least public complacency).
In the Israeli/Palestinian struggle, neither side can claim outright innocence. Both have continued the conflict, and both have committed acts of war. But in this present engagement, Hamas is definitely the initial aggressor. There can be no honest dispute about that.
TheRedneck
