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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [qb]"You [i]know[/i] that's not what I'm saying." Well, no, I don't. I mean, these people are in fear for their lives from both the insurgents and the American military/Iraqi police. And you seem to be saying "well, if they can't get over being scared a do something useful, they're just babies and they're screwed".[/b][/QUOTE]No one said anything like that at all- as I've stated already- the locals need to be proactive their own defense: to have info on the insurgents whereabouts and plans and do [i]nothing[/i] to stop them is to aid the insurgents. Not sharing that information costs both Iraqi and US lives every day. [QUOTE][qb] If you lived there, would you really want to call the cops on the insurgents, knowing that, if the insurgents don't kill you for it, it's just as likely that the Americans will kill you themselves in the process of taking out the insurgents? [/qb][/QUOTE]I know there's the treat of the insurgents looking for payback but they cant expect US forces to protect them from insurgents while they turn a blind eye to insurgent activity. You've got a very wrong view of what's going on there if you think civillians are "just as likely to be killed by US forces". US troops have gone so far out of their way to avoid civillian casualties that they wont engage insurgents in most public areas (unless fired on first) and they wont fire on holy sites even when insurgents fire from them at US troops. No other army in the world has ever gone so far as this to keep civillians safe or to respect their holy places during wartime. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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