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Originally Posted by indianajoe
I like the words in a Stephen Stills song.." I think enemies are fantasies... somebody elses living nightmare"...~ Isn't It About Time
How can we hate people we never met?..why do people do things wrong to people they've never met?..Usually the motivating factor is fear.. fear that is instilled by rulers...politicians etc..For example the Japanese civilians were very afraid of being captured by American forces because they were told in part that we would "kill and eat their babies"..
Interestingly , the Japanese did exactly that during the Nanking China invasion..although they deny such things happened.
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Just like it is... or at least used to be - not sure if it still is... illegal to teach about the holocaust in Germany.
But to your point, it's not fear that drives me to think that we treat our prisoners too well, its logic: The enemy, whoever that is at the time, would not think twice before killing an American civilian or treating captured soldiers worse than dogs. We fight too civilized. If we started fighting like them and took the war into their homes and their hearts, they may start to see things a little bit differently.