Originally posted by Sandman333: Including death by lowering head first into a vat of acid? Yeah, Saddam did that too.... Where was the outrage in the Muslim world then?
There you go comparing what Saddamn did. You CANNOT compare. Its like Apples and Oranges. Is it fair? Maybe not. But none the less, you can't compare.
Saddam was a known abuser of Human Rights, and we're known ENFORCERS of Human Rights. That's one of the reasons we're there, to eliminate the abuse of Human Rights. However, if we ourselves abuse our power, does it make us any better? Whose going to police our actions?
No one but ourselves. Precisely the reason we must hold ourselves to a HIGHER MORAL STANDARD.
Well, sir, if all you believe is that America's only objective is to be full Human Rights Enforcers for the entire freakin' world, then we'll be enforcing human rights far into the future...much further than either you or I will see. And it will last until there is no more oxygen to breathe, because no matter how many "good" people there are in the world, there will ALWAYS be a few bad groups of seeds out there. That has happened, is happening now, and will always continue to happen with the population of planet Earth being as vast as it is. But I'm sure you knew that already.
And why can't there be a comparison? Not everyone in America is "good", just as not everyone in the Muslim world is "bad". I'll wholeheartedly agree that a majority of their population is a source of trouble, but that by no means says that every American existing, obviously including the US Soldiers that were abusing prisoners, is a perfect little angel. Therefore, I see your claim that an American terrorist can not be compared to a Muslim terrorist as false.
I'm sure you've witnessed it, but SAYING we must hold ourselves to a higher moral standard is far easier than PROVING we are capable of it.
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