(July 20, 2019 at 5:23 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: While I will happily grant that jihadists and crusaders don't have enough difference between them to show daylight, your post is attempting to equate soldiers with terrorists, which is hardly the same the thing. I think the comparison pretty much fails because professional soldiering doesn't have as it's chief tactic the targeting of civilians to achieve political ends (at least, not avowedly). Civilians are killed in every war, it's simply not avoidable. But the deaths of these civilians - I believe the nice, sanitized phrase is 'collateral damage' - isn't the object of the operation.
Furthermore, the Western military operations in the Middle East can't be called 'a crusade' by any sensible person, as there isn't a religious objective. The aims are more cynical and economic than anything else.
Boru
American soldiers as I understand are from the whole country and whole ethnic/religious backgrounds; many are in the army for the cash -considering it a job like any-. but others -many too- are evangelicals with bad ideas ranging from racism to extremism. I can be more accurate and give example by the loyal crowd around Trump and many political heads in the U.S's republican & oligarch institution.
These voters that made him win can act as a very decent fuel for a war with Iran.
Put Israel in the middle and there you go: a full-scale Jewish/Christian/Islamic conflict.
