Why are there bleeding heart groups that support our enemies in war and not us?

Question

There are there always some people that say we are evil in war and we should give the other side a break. We go to war with them and they brutallly kill our men and women and yet some people sympathize and say we should not torture or kill their people please tell me why you would side with their people when our people are being tortured and killed?

Answer 1

You have to understand the problem is that we were not attacked by Iraq. Our own government begrudgingly admits that. (9/11 commission report) Now the rally cry is that the US freed an oppressed people from a brutal dictator (in which Iraq was) However, that can not be a sole reason to go to war, because if that is, then we have a whole lot more countries to invade. Ones with more powerful allies and greater international military capabilities. It is as if we burned down the house across the street for something their neighbor did. As a liberal and a former member of the military I do not take the side of anyone who kills an American soldiers. And anyone who does should NOT be tortured. No one should be tortured EVER. These are people who are fighting for what they believe. They believe it as much or more than anything we have ever held dear to us. They are patriots (the word patriot is not only reserved for the good guys)for their beliefs, much like we would be if someone invaded our land and overthrew our government. Because I say they should not be tortured doesn't mean I take their side... get real. and read a newspaper.

Answer 2

I think its great that you are asking this as a question rather than name calling or making personal attacks. I hope the responses you get are respectful.

The people who think we should give the other side a break are very few. Maybe one percent of the country. The majority of the country is against the war, but this certainly doesn't mean we are for the other side. I think the people who are supporting the enemy are doing our country a terrible dis-service, like the people who support the war. Most people support the military, and want desperately for the government to take actions to protect our soldiers from dying for a worthless cause.

We don't torture our enemies because a civilized country conducts themselves in a civilized manner. Torture and the killing of innocents is for terrorists, who must be stopped for that very reason. We are the greatest country that has ever existed, those who doubt that should take a hard look at history. We answer torture with conventional warfare and brutality with an effort to erradicate those who would take such cowardly actions. As the greatest country in the world we have a responsibility, not just to win, but to hold ourselves to a higher standard. Our war is on terrorism, we cannot become terrorists ourselves.

Answer 3

What are these groups, exactly? And excuse me, but we are also killing them and torturing them, or have you not heard of Abu Grahb and Guantanamo Bay? What do you think war is, a card game? They kill us, we kill them. That's what war is. It's not one sided. Some of us feel sorry for the people who are getting murdered by our military in this unjust illegal war. Why is that such a bad thing?

Answer 4

while did disagreeing with A conflict substitute into against ALL WARS? In each American conflict in heritage there have been liberals status beside conservatives. interior the imaginitive conflict you are able to make a solid argument that the final public of colonial squaddies have been liberals on condition that they stood against the status quo of the monarchy. The Union interior the Civil conflict fought for a more suitable federal government and the abolition of slavery (how bleeding heart are you able to be struggling with for that???). i think of liberals, besides as conservatives, gets up nice in a invasion. you will possibly desire to loosen up and come back to certainty.

Answer 5

Because a lot of the "bleeding hearts" are actually ravenous wolves in sheeps clothing. They like to portray themselves as the rational, peace loving, heroes of democracy when actually they seek radical changes in our government, our constitution, our economic system, and our society. In order to achieve this goal they defend and support our enemies and hope for our defeat.

P.S. The above statement in no way is an endorsement of torture. Torture is ethically unacceptable and doesn't achieve the intended result anyway.

For the uninformed out there: NO ONE IS BEING TORTURED AT GUANTANAMO BAY....unless it's the guards that have to put up with these animals.

Answer 6

I take it you're from Israel? Or a US citizen referring 9/11?

In either case, the argument certainly isn't "you should give the other side a chance". The argument is, first you need to ascertain WHO the other side IS! For example, in Israel's case, the enemy is NOT every man, woman and child of Lebanon. In the US case, the enemy was NOT Afghanistan or Iraq.

The second charge to the argument is, and in the words of Bush himself, you need to use "a proportionate and balanced response"
Going back to Israel, the razing of entire districts by blanket bombing and the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian structures eg homes, schools, roads, bridges, water treatment facilities, petrol stations etc, is not a balanced response to the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers - it is a response to the age-old persecution of the Jews, by an angry child-PM, fuelled by bitter memories and a new fat military force who is now using his new military toy in an enraged and misdirected way.

Answer 7

I can tell you of a conservative group that has funded the terrorist for the pas 5 years. They are known as the bush administration. Their policy is to encourage the use of fossil fuel around the country.
90% of the terrorist funding comes from oil money. Instead of cutting down on our imports to undercut their funding of terrorist groups trying to attack us, they lowered the worlds supply by the Iraq invasion shutting down their oil production, and raised demand by not trying to establish alternative fuel sources in this country.
This makes the oil industry profitability grow through out the world, and gives more money to the terrorists.
The only way we can stop this is to vote Democrat this fall. If we vote Democrat, we will take money out of the terrorist pocket.

Answer 8

I agree with you! In fact a lot of other very smart people have spoke on that subject.

In 1941, Albert Einstein replied to a letter he recieved from a pacifist. He said,

"If all the young people in America were to act as you intend to act, the country would be defenseless and easily delievered into slavery."

Answer 9

because they are all Palestinians! We support the Israelis. But Bush just send a little over 500 million Dollars to Lebanon. Yes, that's correct over 500 million dollars. Lebanon is a Palestinian country. That money should stay here at home! Why help our enemies??

Answer 10

Because they live in a fantasy world of sugar and spice... where we all sing kum by yah arm and arm into the sunset. Where all our solders are murdering scum and the enemy is all sweetness and light.


"The world is a dangerous place to live
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do
anything about it."
-- Albert Einstein