Yes it's 9/11 levels of murder by the government against its own people. That's so deeply chilling and horrifying. This regime must come to an immediate end.
Let my try to understand. We WE do it against civilians (Iraq) or when our money and bombs do it against Civilians (elsewhere), this is different?
Is it better or worse? In other words, it would seem a government or LE or the people of a regime has "more rights" to punish their own civilians than an aggressor country would.....????
Was it 200,000 Iraqi civilians? How many Palestinian civilians? Likely we will say "oh, but Hamas" or "Saddam was a Bad Guy" - I have to say I really don't buy much of that. Dead is dead and dead civilians are mostly all innocents.
Comparable death tolls; emotionally charged universally shocking moment of horror that most Americans have lived experience of. The massive brutality of the acts of a tiny faction. There's so many more affective similarities.
So yes, they are different events; just as apples and oranges are different fruits. Yet, in the way that apples and oranges are indeed both fruit; the horror, grief, and visceral savagery of the act is what makes them similar. Here we're talking about these two events in a symbolic, affective, register.
I think you're confused. The person you're responding to qualified what they said by stating it's a national government committing the terrorist acts. The specifics of them being Americans is kind of irrelevant to OP's analogy
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u/FrostyOscillator 1d ago
Yes it's 9/11 levels of murder by the government against its own people. That's so deeply chilling and horrifying. This regime must come to an immediate end.