OK, let me ask you the question I did in response to your comment on my blog.
You say:
If were invaded and occupied, I can promise you I would be in the streets. Not because of some blind loyalty, but for my own personal sovereignty.
Suppose you were a German circa 1945. You were "invaded and occipied" by American (and British) troops.
Would you be in the streets, mad at the fact that a Nazi regime had been overthrown?
If I was a Nazi loyalist, perhaps.
But as myself, now, no. Certainly not. Because as I understand Nazis now, I don't for a moment that they increase my personal or my country's sovereignty. But that's not the point. It's a loaded question, John, that is taking away from the real issue: how do we defeat the insurgency, and an added bonus, which I believe my thought process aides, to lose as few lives of innocents or insurgents as possible (What could be more pro-life?).
But for whatever reason I am resisting an invading and occupying force (which the Americans and the British obviously were, which from my perspective wasn't a bad thing), bombing the crap out of me isn't going to make me hate you less. It isn't going to destroy that idea.
One example of that idea coming back--even being gone for so long, but resurfacing because we didn't address the racial problems in our country--the KKK.
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