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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf we go after Assad & Syria for killing their citizens....
should we also use our military to go after Joseph Kony?
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If we go after Assad & Syria for killing their citizens.... (Original Post)
wildbilln864
Aug 2013
OP
if we kill "their" citizens when going after assad, how are we different than assad? nt
msongs
Aug 2013
#1
If the police accidentally kill innocent bystanders while capturing armed robbers,
Nye Bevan
Aug 2013
#6
msongs
(67,199 posts)1. if we kill "their" citizens when going after assad, how are we different than assad? nt
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)4. Wondered that myself
Killing more Syrians because they are killing Syrians, it just sounds insane.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)6. If the police accidentally kill innocent bystanders while capturing armed robbers,
does that make the police the same as the armed robbers?
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)8. makes them worse! IMHOOC. n/t
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. we're already participating in the effort to track down Kony nt
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)3. Obama sent 100 U.S. Special Forces troops to help regional governments eliminate Kony
DU OP here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11791278
it's an older OP, I don't know what's happened since then - it was what came up in a search.
Edited to add...
Officials: US to offer $5 million bounty on Kony
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014443176
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)5. thanks. n/t
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)7. To my knowledge, Joseph Kony is not a head of state
false equivalency.