They hate us for our

[whatchamacallit]

freedoms brutality

[upaloopa]

1. Who hates our brutality those that behead journalists?

Who hates our brutality? Those that enslave women?

[el_bryanto]

3. It's possible they hate our way of blowing their homes up and killing them. nt

[tecelote]

4. Or those that send drones to weddings?

No one hates us for our freedom anymore.

We hold more prisoners, by number, than China. More than any country in the world.

We spy on everyone, including our citizens.

We torture.

How many aircraft carriers do we have? No one else even has one. Our military is the largest organization in the world. Bigger than most countries.

We are not the land of the free anymore. But, we sure are the land of the brave.

[upaloopa]

14. We are not the only country who uses brutality

or has aircraft carriers. I am not a supporter of brutality. But not being realistic is no help to anyone.
When I was in Vietnam we were brutal. So was the VC. The war should never have taken place I think but it is important to point out the truth no matter where it takes you.

[Lex]

5. Doesn't make our brutality non-existent. nt

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[Maedhros]

6. That would be those relatives and friends of the women and children we kill,

who then get so hopped up on hatred as a result of our butchery that extreme ideology seems to have the answers.

Killing more people generates more hate, which swells the ranks of ISIL. Simple concept, really.

[cali]

7. a wide swath of people across the middle east, unaffiliated with terror

hate us. That's what happens when you bomb people.

[whatchamacallit]

8. Play this to understand

http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm

[malaise]

10. The US killed more than a million Iraqis and you bawl when three Western journalists

are beheaded in the Middle East?

Ah well!

[leftstreet]

13. LOL Saudi Oilrabia (US buddy) beheads people all the time!

I know, I know...white, western heads are more important than those 'other' heads

[FSogol]

2. Didn't we leave Iraq 3 years ago?

[JI7]

9. they actually don't hate us , go visit sometime or meet people from there

[pampango]

15. Good point. Most Sunnis just want peace, a decent job, some level of human rights and a degree of

democracy (some influence on how their government is run). IOW, they are surprisingly like us.

The violent minority may hate us because it leads to violence which gives them more power. (They don't aspire to take power through elections.) They may genuinely hate us for our liberated women, our relatively open gays, a relatively secular society - but they are a minority. We in the West also have our fundamentalist minority that hates our liberated women, our relatively open gays and our relatively secular society.

[JI7]

16. there are probably more Americans who really do hate them

also the ones who join up terrorist groups are often those who have lived pretty good lives. rarely are they those who have actually been victimized by the US or anyone else.

look at how the worst terrorists in ISIS are British , many who have grown up in pretty well to do comfortable homes and whose parents are often moderates.

[whatchamacallit]

19. I believe that

In honor our latest "must do" intervention, I'm just putting a little twist on that shit phrase.

[Logical]

11. Refrigerated dog food! nt

[kentuck]

12. As Bill Maher said:

When you make the decision to live amongst "cutthroats", there is the possibility that you may get your throat cut...

It's not like they were standing in line to get the new I-phone and somebody cut their heads off....

I think his point may have been crude but it has some legitimacy.

[Xyzse]

17. Arrogance

Though like someone else said, most don't hate us.

The ones that do, tend to be the ones directly aversely affected by US interventionist policy.

[slipslidingaway]

18. Spent the day ....

on a boat on the Turkish coast with a Turkish citizen and his wife. They had lived in the US for fourteen years and realized that the US was not for them.

The US should not try and be the policeman of the world ... and I agree.

What a mess we have made and Repubs could not have done so without the Dems.

[Autumn]

20. I watched the news tonight. I was wondering how many innocents died.

nothing on that, it just doesn't matter does it.