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to those telling us to mitigate our tears | anger | pain | responses — because drones because US foreign policy because Pakistani government because Pakistani army because media we're telling you: because children when we have spent years trying to make you understand US foreign policy - to look at drone attacks - to sympathize with the children, women, and men being murdered by the US government in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and now Syria - to notice the Pakistani government's complicity in drone strikes and the "War on Terror" - to notice the relationship between what happens in this country and what we do to other countries - to simply see. our. pain. we were told those places are no longer our "homes" - right here is where we should place our concern - not on Gaza - not on Pakistan - not on "foreign" nations - stop sending your money "there" - to not link what happens "here" and "there" because we're co-opting struggles - to. be. numb. so now I'm requesting you to stop. co-opting. our. pain. our. children. our. foreign. nation. our. lives. we are not your case-study. for Pakistan. for Islam. for foreign policy. for war. for political struggle. we are angry. we are in pain. we just lost another batch of <our> children | <our> teachers | <our> parents. we are not suddenly in need of your [academic | Islamic | fair-minded | neutral] insights.