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Best post ever. You are so correct, and I never really thought about it that way.
Not having a dig at you personnaly, but most people don't see it that way due to the massive amount of effort applied by the aggressors to portray the victims of the aggression as somehow deserving of being attacked, blown up and otherwise murdered to death.
Without
that effort, theres no way on earth a country like the US (that is after all
mostly populated by reasonable friendly people who just want to get on with life) could be convinced that the nation of mostly friendly reasonable folk who just want to get on with life, needs to be bombed back to the stone-age.
The fact that enough Americans (and others) are still convinced that there is a 'job to be finished' in Iraq, is evidence that the media has done its work extremely well.
Another example is the Israel/Palestinian issue.
Israel has been conducting an illegal military occupation of Palestinian land for decades now. They murder, imprison, torture the people, and they destroy Palestinian homes, farms, infrastructure and property with impunity. they are also building permanent settlements on occupied land (contrary to the 4th Geneva convention).
Yet, to listen to US media, you would think that it is the Israelis who are the victims. News reports are all about israeli fatalities or injuries. pictures are always of palestinians throwing stones at the Israeli military. The reason they are throwing rocks and blowing themselves up at checkpoints is because they are the victims of an illegal military occupation of horrific proportions. yet in the west, and particularly the US, it is the
Israelis who are defending themselves.
Its all about perspective.
