Modification of Geneva Conventions

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

It has nothing to do with a"debating technique". Dalakhani can correct me if I am misinterpreting his beliefs in any way. From reading his posts, his position appears to be that since no side is "all good" and no side is "all evil" then that means that there is no real right or wrong and everyihng is a grey area. If that is not his position, then he can say so and he can give some specific examples of things that are "black and white."

I think a lot of what i have said is taken and run with without any real interpretation. Perhaps it is my lack of command of the language. Never did i say that i disagree with what US intelligence had to do. I pretty much said that when i said "all is fair in love and war". My only point is that the US isnt above all of the things we accuse all of the other countries of.

This black and white thing is funny to me though. It shows how little people know about the history of the region. Terrorism is a terrible thing and the act of terrorizing is truly an evil thing. But what has led to the current situation is what i mean when i say that there is grey area.

The war in Iraq was unjust. Thus, the thousands of innocent civilians that died were wrongly killed. Could that be deemed as an act of terrorism? Depends on which way you look at it. Thats what i meant when i said "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter". We view our soldiers over there as fighting for the freedom of the iraqi people. Many Arabs feel that those same soldiers are oppressive. Who is right or wrong? It depends on which way you see it.

Does that make things any clearer?