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Randal_Flagg said:
I completely agree with the above and want to flesh it out a litte. What our adminstration fails to realize, despite their own masterful use of PR and spin, is that the "War of Terror" is a war of ideas not a conventional war.



That is so stupid.

Obviously you and r3x have never heard the phrase, "Intimidate those who intimidate others." When we start suicide bombing buildings with mass amounts of civilians *cough*9/11*cough* then I'll start listening to your knee-jerk Nietzschien lectures. Right now, however, we had the ability to take out 190 enemy officers. Killing them would mean not giving them the chance to kill more Americans or even American allies in the middle east.

Neither of you know the definition of war or even understand the mechanics of the morality it follows. So stop trying to tell everyone that you do with ad hominem like, "If we act with the level of morality that the terrorists do, then the terrorists win." What if we weren't fighting terrorists? What if this wasn't good vs. evil and rather a legitimate disagreement of principles in which there was no other choice but to fight (see also: Civil War)? Would you then be saying, 'Don't stoop to the lows of our enemies'?

The satire here is how much r3x is talking out both ends; saying that we should embrace our Muslim brothers whilst at the same time not become like them.