You provided a link to pictures of apparantly innocent or nonaggressive people who had been killed (by US soldiers?).
If these deaths were ALL actions of US soldiers on innocent Iraqis, the question would be is it occuring more now than say...in WWII in Europe? I would say that the firebombing of Dredsden(sp?)would give you a good indication of what that answer is going to be.
It seems to me that your implication that American soldiers are inordinately aggressive and barbaric is just as much a generalization as the statement to which you are responding.
Dan Carroll writes:
Riots might get set off by single incident, making the riot seem like a vast overreaction. But the incident is never the sole cause.
Are you saying their violent reaction is reasonable because the perception that their religion is being attacked and this perception was caused by the deaths of many apparantly innocent individuals in Iraq?
Taking that to a logical conclusion...then the apparant violent reaction of American soldiers against "innocent" Iraqis is reasonable because many other innocent Iraqis know where the troublemakers are but won't turn them in. You know, the troublemakers who just killed several Marines with roadside bombs and are known to people in the town/neighborhood.
If you excuse irrational violent acts by the ones burning the churches then you must excuse the irrational violent acts by the American soldiers under attack.
I don't believe we should excuse either.
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