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I'm not saying our foreign policy on a country sized scale is oriented towards our traditional symbolic values. I'm saying that domestic America does represent those symbolic values, Iraq represented different values, and whatever our reason for entering Iraq was, the fact that they are resisting our attempts at pushing our values unto them means that they (those resisting) suck. Since they suck, we should care about if American soldiers die more than if those resisting die.

What I mean is, the Iraqi rebels aren't justified in fighting back just because our reason for entering is wrong. Our reason for entering is none of their business provided their domestic values are polar to ours.

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This is a pretty bizarre way of looking at things. Anyway, the previous poster is right. Your belief that America represents these things independent of its actions seems to be the result of some hardcore propagandizing. At least the outcome is fairly indistinguishable.