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Are We the Good Guys or the Bad Guys?
Posted Apr 4th 2007 9:37AM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: World News, Iraq, Middle East, George Bush, Young Turks, Terrorism, Military
As I explain here, I think we are the good guys -- or at least we can be and we often strive to be. But lately, we are certainly not acting like it. Look at this story from ABC News which explains how we are aiding a terrorist group in Pakistan that executes Iranian officials on tape. Would the good guys do that?
Let alone launching a first strike against a country that did not attack or threaten us. That used to be called a war of aggression -- and is the highest war crime.
So what do you think -- have we slipped over into being the bad guys these days?
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1. It's an interesting article, but basically the premise that funding is coming from the US is solely coming from the tribe itself. Even the anonymous officials in the US, says the relationship sets up no funding. Not that that makes it untrue, but the sources seem a little vague about who they're after Al Queda or Iran.
Mel at 10:09AM on Apr 4th 2007
2. Did they kidnap 54 of them and hold them for 444 days and conduct 'mock' executions to amuse themselves? This is how the Islamic extremism movement began in Iran, 28 years ago (1979), when 54 US citizens were kidnapped. Each day, the world watched in horror, as orchestrated replays of these events filled our TV screens and we also watched as an effete US president (Jimmy Carter) through his stupefying inaction helped usher in the current era of "terror politics". Yes one person can make as difference.
Bob Rogan at 2:07PM on Apr 4th 2007
3. This is the first time this Democrat agrees entirely with Bob Rogan. Being 50, I was an adult at the time and it was just AWFUL. The Israelis had successfully pulled off the rescue Raid on Entebbe. While I was sitting in my beat up old car in the Indiana University Student Union parking lot, Carter was talking on the radio saying OUR rescue mission had totally failed. I thought, "can't you do anything right?"
Truthfully, I thought Reagan had cleaned up most of the terrorism with his bombing of Tripoli (which I cheered) and that the hostages were freed almost immediately after he took office.
I've hated Iran ever since, and firmly believe that 98% of the citizens there would LOVE to kill an American just for the fun of it.
But, we are not at war with Iran. If the group were going after the President of Iran or the supreme whatever of the Shiite Muslim faith, my feelings MIGHT be different. But getting involved in any way in the same type of barbaric beheadings America has deplored makes us the bad guys under these circumstances. There is nothing wrong in knowing about the group, aiding it is a different story.
Phil at 8:33PM on Apr 4th 2007
4.
Yes the hostage situation in Iraq was an embarrassing situation for us but the problem did not begin in 1979. In 1953 the United States was complicit in the overthrow of a democractically elected government in Iran. Is there anything anywhere in our Constitution that authorizes that type of action ? For the record the hostages made it back alive. In 1988 the USS Vincennes (while in Iranian waters) shot down an Iranian civilian airliner and killed 290 civilians. If the shoe were on the other foot how would we react to an explanation of "mistaken identity" ? Then again at the time our government was buddying up to Irans foe Saddam Hussein of Iraq. The year before Iraq attacked the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf and killed 37 U.S. Sailors. Anyone remember any outrage when that happened ? Selective memory sometimes makes people forget things they'd rather not remember but it doesn't change the facts.
max at 12:21AM on Apr 10th 2007