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In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.

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Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces…

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Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in...…

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Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that…

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In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe…

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I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].

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The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our c…

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And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because dem…

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But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions di…

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Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

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