Reality
This is Steven Petrick Posting.
I have heard that the U.S. should never ever kill a bad man if there is a chance you might harm his wife and kids.
I cannot understand people whose thinking stops at "we must never do anything wrong", and never considers the consequences of "never do anything wrong" other than that it will make them sleep better at night no matter how many of their fellow citizens are losing their lives as a result.
The fact is that a policy of "we will never drop a bomb on you if you keep a kid in the middle of your armed camp" is basically surrender.
And that is the real point of that conversation.
They cannot make the people who would harm Americans or their allies stop doing so, but they believe the world will be a better place if we do not try to do so. Their logic is that the only thing that allows the bad guys to recruit more bad guys is Americans killing bad guys. If the Americans did not kill bad guys, the bad guys would just magically disappear because they would not be able to point to their dead comrades and say "see what the Americans did".
Osama bin Laden pretty much did not create Al Qaida and recruit the following that destroyed the World Trade Center by saying "look what the Americans did", he did it by committing atrocities against Americans and saying "See how helpless the Americans are, I kill them and they flail about ineffectually because Allah is on our side."
Still, the Phil Donahues of the Media will call on the Average Americans to wait calmly their time on the headsman's block, as long as they (the Phil Donahues) can sleep soundly knowing that Americans are not trying to strike back at their enemies.
I have heard that the U.S. should never ever kill a bad man if there is a chance you might harm his wife and kids.
I cannot understand people whose thinking stops at "we must never do anything wrong", and never considers the consequences of "never do anything wrong" other than that it will make them sleep better at night no matter how many of their fellow citizens are losing their lives as a result.
The fact is that a policy of "we will never drop a bomb on you if you keep a kid in the middle of your armed camp" is basically surrender.
And that is the real point of that conversation.
They cannot make the people who would harm Americans or their allies stop doing so, but they believe the world will be a better place if we do not try to do so. Their logic is that the only thing that allows the bad guys to recruit more bad guys is Americans killing bad guys. If the Americans did not kill bad guys, the bad guys would just magically disappear because they would not be able to point to their dead comrades and say "see what the Americans did".
Osama bin Laden pretty much did not create Al Qaida and recruit the following that destroyed the World Trade Center by saying "look what the Americans did", he did it by committing atrocities against Americans and saying "See how helpless the Americans are, I kill them and they flail about ineffectually because Allah is on our side."
Still, the Phil Donahues of the Media will call on the Average Americans to wait calmly their time on the headsman's block, as long as they (the Phil Donahues) can sleep soundly knowing that Americans are not trying to strike back at their enemies.
posted by Federation Commander at 9:32 PM
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