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Originally Posted by ranxer
i think religion is a solid 30% of the reason people are fighting but not much more.
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You are overcomplicating it, as I would expect from an aspiring political buff. That is a thrown number there, and it is impossible to accept how their religion effects their decisions when all we focus on are the domestic benefits and shortcomings; so I can see why you feel the need to think that.
But what you may not have realized, is that no religious leaders or government mind-wipers decided on these beliefs, they were established centuries ago. Again, they were raised this way, there is no puppet master pulling the strings.
To think this is about resources again is a generic and, pardon me, narrow vantage on what we are looking at. This was an attack on normal workers, and a desecration of their beings along with it.
The automatic mechanical response to this is "
This goes back to when we attacked just for Oil and ruined all of their lives." and that is simply not true. They have
never wanted anything to do with us. It has always been this way,
and will always be this way.
And you have to get real for a second here. You think that the slumrats and field workers are stewing day and night over a resource they never really had power over in the first place? (Not that I am saying that stripping them of it is fine and dandy) You would actually think that they would murder, burn, abuse, and hang unarmed people who are working to help reconstruct the very city they live in over something they know nothing about? It is just simple common sense mixed in with a little knowledge of their land's background.
But again, I suspect most ignore that and will continue to make recurring arguments to turn everything that happens in that region as another leg to support their original opposition to all activity there. Even though I also oppose most foreign involvement where it does not belong, I realize that the only involvement that lead to this disaster was those people's mere presence.