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Mr. Assad said: "The real issue here is that as many terrorists as we kill, new ones are brought in through borders.
They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops.
A naked, graceless phrase that mocks the weak, that says, not only will you not inherit the earth, we're going to make you watch as we steal your inheritance, as we kill your schoolchildren and rape your women, as we take all the bounty that we might share with ease and keep it for ourselves alone.
So if we do choose to eat animal products, we need to do so with the attitude some indigenous cultures recommend: recognition that cow, pig, chicken, deer, corn and worm are all sacred creatures worthy of respect as we interact with them -- and even as we kill them.
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Yet as We Killed shows, fighting that prejudice has been there from the beginning.
"They applauded as we killed ourselves/But angels don't have bourbon on their breath," Hall wrote.
And in a way, this was the logic that was deployed for the Iraq War: we weren't invading a country, we were fighting weapons of mass destruction, only objects; we could love people even as we killed them by the thousand, because our cause was just.
For example, we can intend to kill and even try to kill someone without killing him; and we can kill him without intending or trying to kill him, as when we kill accidentally.
"As indigenous forces manoeuvre against our enemy, it forces our enemy to move, they have to react, and as soon as the enemy reacts we kill them from the air".
"But at the crux of the story of Doom is the idea that we're humanising the monsters we kill, anatomically as well as emotionally".
We kill as a necessity of our business — not for sport, pleasure, or because we can.
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