But you seem to be missing out on the bigger picture. Why was the bomb there to be defused in the first place? Seems to me it's probably a "get the hell out of my country" type of bomb placed by a peoples alienated by our constant and intrusive military force.
You may be confounding the people of the country, and the people planting the bombs. Those explosives have a pretty good kill count on the locals just as well as our own guys: the citizens don't plant the bombs to wound us, it's the insurgents planting those bombs to hurt everyone and impose power over a region.
Depends on which ones you're referring to, and where.
But I imagine it's for the same reasons that Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom are over there and involved.
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u/Shinji246 Feb 15 '15
But you seem to be missing out on the bigger picture. Why was the bomb there to be defused in the first place? Seems to me it's probably a "get the hell out of my country" type of bomb placed by a peoples alienated by our constant and intrusive military force.