Know I've mentioned this before, but I guess some people still need to be reminded that as a rule, people don't like it when you invade their country, bomb their villages, and kill their relatives, and some of them will take up arms against you in response. This does not---repeat, not---make them militants, or jihadis, or Taliban, or Al Qaeda, or anything else. It just makes them pissed-off people who are pissed off because you bombed their village and killed their relatives, and who are seeking a little revenge. This is not some aberrant type of behavior exhibited only by unhinged extremists---in most places, in fact, the retaliatory impulse would strike most people as perfectly normal. But I suppose there are certain people in this world who are not allowed to indulge in vengeful thoughts, and they all just happen to be people whose villages were bombed by our leaders. But they hate us for our freedoms!
And I agree with Glenn also, that there is no way for anyone to spin away policies as justifiable under Obama that they would have found morally repugnant under Bush, although I realize, like he does, that some people seem to have difficulty fathoming this:
I know it’s difficult for someone to realize this when they believe that what appears on CNN and MSNBC represents the full range of mainstream political ideas on the planet, but cheering for American violence and affirming its imperial prerogatives to attack anyone it wants isn’t the norm in the world.---Vitelius
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