Community Chat

[SANNA]

Collateral damage is a very unfortunate reality of any war.

Remember the carpet bombing in Ruen, Normandy? 15,000 French civilians were killed there. Horrific, but we defeated Nazis.

Many examples like this,but this war is much more difficult and the world let that happened, the enemy is everywhere and we have to do what we have to do.

Period.

[terrier3]

There was a very interesting article in the NYT today...ISIS is in a box:

But ISIS’ reach is bounded; there are no more areas in which it can extend by claiming to be a defender of Sunni Arab populations. To the north, there are Kurds; to the east, Iraqi Shiites; to the west, Alawites, now protected by the Russians. And all are resisting it. To the south, neither the Lebanese, who worry about the influx of Syrian refugees, nor the Jordanians, who are still reeling from the horrid execution of one of their pilots, nor the Palestinians have succumbed to any fascination for ISIS. Stalled in the Middle East, ISIS is rushing headlong into globalized terrorism.

In fact, they attacked Hezbollah in Beirut too a week or so ago!

They will implode.

We can't let fear overwhelm our good sense.

[meem120]

Here we are whining about red cups.....when WW3 is coming.  I pray our leaders here get their act together and it doesn't take a tragedy here to wake them up. I hope all of us realize the events in Paris will have a global effect for many years to come .  Say a prayer for us all

[Maudelynn]

When we stop paying attention to collteral damage, weighing the risks and rewards of wiping out thousands of innocents, we become EXACTLY like those we wish to inhialate.

[Another new name Sue]

Collateral damage is one reason people are fleeing Syria.  It's an extremely dangerous place to live. 

[SahmIam]

No such thing; the two go hand-in-hand.

[sophiamarie]

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@MyGirlsMom wrote:

WOW... the last time I recalled the the words , "collateral damage' causing so much unrest was during the Oklahoma  City bombings in 1995. 

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Timothy McVeigh

[ballyk]

We call it collateral damage, Doctors without Borders call it war crimes.

[QVCkitty1]

What I resent is the candidates using this tragedy to help their campaigns . The truth is they have no idea what they would do when faced with all of the facts, and the responsibility.

[RoughDraft]

Collateral damage...just two words until it's us or ones we know and love.