Maybe I'm just a sap, but my eyes got watery when I read this...

[shirenomad]

Iraqi girl with a serious heart condition gets treatment. (The start of the story can be found here; scroll down to "Days 11-16."

Anyone who still thinks American soldiers don't care about the Iraqi people can bite me.

Comments

[mountainranger.livejournal.com]

Slaves, yes, but even then people who wanted slaves didn't just want to collect them in mass to kill them.

I'm not very familiar with the Japanese thing; was it comparable to some of the practices I mentioned?

[shirenomad]

This sums it up pretty well. Essentially a mass racial arrest, and totally unacceptable, even if there were real spies among the arrested (as I have little doubt there were). But to my knowledge, no deaths or direct torture.

[shirenomad]

Yeah, I mean we only had slaves and concentration camps for the Japanese -- what do they matter?

So you're saying that we haven't improved at all since then? Yes, we have a dark history, and we're right to regret it, but this generation shouldn't have to bear the sins of the father. We're improving -- we're not perfect, and never will be, but we're improving.

Meanwhile, the other side is still sawing the heads off civilians and publically celebrating when they do it. Saddam was gassing Kurds this decade (and would have continued to if he hadn't been removed); insurgents are deliberately blowing up civilians and rescue workers right now. Don't put our troops in the same boat as them.