On another note, I have often wondered about the tactics of the US military, US government, US politicians and their agencies and contractors. It is obvious that they continually do things to make things worse in the countries we are occupying and bombing, and they do it on purpose. It appears that their plan is to keep doing things to inspire more terrorism in the world, and thereby require more military and violent interventions - that, of course, includes lying, stealing, destruction, torture, rape, kidnapping, unending imprisonment, and being the biggest terrorists themselves. They start up wars of aggression, like in Iraq, which causes immense pain to tens of millions of people - and grows more terrorism.
And the question is: do they do this because they are evil? or because they are stupid? I guess they can be both...... but if they are smart enough to get elected president of the USA, it is hard to argue that they are stupid. The other day, I ran across the phrase "militant ignorance" and I think this applies. Maybe these people doing these things - start up wars, bomb countries, order torture, run black site prisons, etc (the list goes ON AND ON!!!) are really determined to stay ignorant of what is really going on.
And the people who support these politicians and policies - well, I guess they are militantly ignorant too.
The video below has a victim of a hate crime saying that he forgave the man who attacked him, basically because he believed his faith told him to do so. He said the attacker was ignorant who did not know the difference between right and wrong.
I guess there is a lot of ignorance in this world.
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