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- This is a huge disconnect, and we let it happen. The problem isn't with the NYPD, the problem is with the blanket total support we give our military when it fights in Afghanistan and Iraq. The price of placing zero value on the lives of the people of these countries is that our lives in turn become worthless. What goes around comes around. You reap what you sow. There are dozens of adages and fables that explain this phenomenon. The lives of the people of the foreign countries are worth exactly as much as ours. We overlooked the behavior of American soldiers in these countries. Now the cops want to know why we treat them differently.
While I support this sentiment, I have to think about the people who will just be inflamed by this. The people who will take the depiction of recruiting information at sporting events as ad hominem attacks, and retaliate in kind, further shifting debate from the real issues at hand. Then again, I don't actually know any way, other than facts, to change a persons mind. Especially if that person has decades of cultural reinforcement behind what they believe.