How has the occupation made armed resistance "necessary"? Many, probably most, Iraqis don't think it's necessary.
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What is necessary? I'm sitting on my radiant ass in North America, typing this friendly note and cannot say with any sort of authority.
The question should be rephrased for clarity: what is predictable? What counter-actions follow, as orgasm follows the appropriate stimulation, from the actions of occupation?
If you sucker punch me -- a crack upon the head -- there's a good chance I'm going to clock you because that's how my human brain is wired. Buddhists and physicists call this cause and effect.
If "errant" US ordinace destroys my neighborhood and kills the innocent, if friends and relatives have been humilated and killed, if thousands of my countrymen have disappeared into "detention centers", if I've been told by hot, frightened foreigners who've burst into my home to "shut the fuck up!", if I've been called 'sand n-word' or 'haji', if foreigners call the shots for my economy, if a group in London changes my flag, if I can't get a job, if my red white and blue friends decide that beseiging an entire city is right and proper to avenge the death of four men, if, if, if...
If I have an AK-47, an RPG and a will to say no handy after all of this goes down. there's a chance that I will see the need for counter-action. Perhaps if I were some saint or a mythical creature, maybe a perfectly logical android, I could calmly take my daily dose of ass kicking from my new friends, waiting for the right moment to stage a 1960's American style civil rights protest. Right after the AC-130 was done strafing the area with DU encased shells that is.
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It's interesting, and predictable, how so many Americans have a hard time understanding the logic (beyond good and evil really, simply a fact) of force and counter-force -- especially when those on the receiving end of the counter-force are folks who look 'like us.'
But let's perform a thought experiement and see how things seem...
Step back in time to Afghanistan during the 1980's -- Mujahedin are bringing armor piercing hell to Red Army troops with the fierceness. Would anyone question whether the resistance of the Muj -- many of whom were not nice men but so it goes on Earth -- was "necessary"?
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