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Im Not Mister Mxypltk said:
Look, you guys are blowing up babies in Iraq. No one disputes that. But it's for the right reason, so it's okay. Guess what, boys and girls: radical islamists (= all islamists = all arabs = nuke em all!) ALSO think they're blowing up babies for the right reason!



There's a difference between war and terrorism. They terrorized and we went to war. It's as simple as that.

Terrorism is murder in that terrorists become citizens and claim to be Americans until they bomb us. The only reason we don't call them "traitors" is because they had murderous intent since before they started posing as Americans.

Americans, on the other hand, went to war. And they(we) did so as a result of the attacks and Hussein's mean streak by associating with the people who terrorize us. The war is a means of self-defense--In which case, civilian casualities are inevitable even if they're avoided.

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They bombed two towers to enforce what they believe in, well, you bombed two japanese cities for basically the same reason.



Nagasaki and Hiroshima ended up saving more lives then they took away. I don't find that we have to justify the destruction of those cities. If it wasn't for the deterrent fear inspired by those bombings, The world would probably still be at war.

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but the fact that you're both blowing up babies when you could choose not to remains.



If they're not going to choose to stop blowing up our babies, then we shouldn't choose not to blow them up. I'm sure you already realize that we don't aim for their babies (unlike them).

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Everyone thinks they're right. Your crimes look as atrocious to them as theirs look to you.



Yes, and we all already know what you define as "our crimes."

Mxy, I'm very worried about you. Perhaps you should take some midol and calm down.

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You're never gonna get along, first of all, because you both insist in judging a whole culture (do you even understand what "a whole culture" implies?) by their worst exponents, and secondly because you refuse to even consider viewing things from their perspective, which is how logic says problems should begin their solution.



The rest of the Arab culture is a cheering accessory to the other terrorist segments. And the amount of belligerent Muslims in the mid-east is too startling to simply say, "We can't judge them all based on just a few examples." Well there aren't "just a few," they're terrifyingly voluminous--And this end result doesn't come from the people themselves, it comes from the traditions that make up their culture. The culture, in turn, is what crafts the mentality of the people.