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Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
There's no reasoning with religious zealots (I know Al Qaeda leadership aren't religious zealots but powerhungry maniacs who use religious zealots as their puppets).
The only possible defense against them is annihillating them and converting their breeding grounds into places inhospitable to religious fanaticism.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
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Merely suggesting that there might be other solutions than sheer brute force means that I'll instantly get painted as some sort of touchy-feely, pink left-wind mush-for-brains liberal.
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Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
There's no reasoning with religious zealots (I know Al Qaeda leadership aren't religious zealots but powerhungry maniacs who use religious zealots as their puppets).
The only possible defense against them is annihillating them and converting their breeding grounds into places inhospitable to religious fanaticism.
In that the US led operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are going a long way towards the latter goal (already having achieved a good part of the first).
I think the US administration may have underestimated the effort required to achieve those goals, but that can hardly be blamed on them, they've never had to deal with such a situation before (the only previous time they had to restore a country during occupation after a war was Japan and Germany after WW2 and in those cases there was more of the civilian infrastructure left in place by the deposed governments).
This might indeed become another Vietnam as the military is unable to fullfill it's mission due to political trouble at home brought upon by the "democratic" leftwingers bend on harming their own government to the detriment of people depending on that government half a world away.
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Originally posted by Joe King:
Unfortunatly thats pretty much what they are saying about us.
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Originally posted by Tanga Palti:
Those who are trying to disrupt Bush policy plan are ultrLeft and don't know anything about world politics.
Originally posted by Joseph George:
Also, at all the risks previously mentioned, I'd like to say that annihillating a whole group of human beings is kind of a nasty thing to do.
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
So, for example, if we annihillated a group of murderers that would be a nasty thing to do?
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Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
Yes, it would be, becasue by default that annihillation would qualify as an act of mass murder.
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
So killing people that try to kill you is murder?
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Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
Of course if the opponents of the current administration's stance win out and unilaterally terminate operations against terrorism that destruction of terrorist infrastructure and support networks won't happen yet the terrorists will remain in place and capable of carrying out their attacks with impunity leading to a long-term increase in terrorism.
Of course it's not in the best interest of the political opponents of the current US administration to present their ideas in quite that light as it makes the negative consequences of their intentions clear (if they even understand those consequences that is which I somewhat doubt).