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Originally posted by dig420@Mar 18 2004, 10:40 AM
Idiots can sit on barstools, talk about killing Muslims and vote for Bush all they want, but the only way terrorism will be defanged is thru statemanship, diplomacy, an exploration of root causes and a reasonable resolution. Thus it has ever been, thus it ever will be.
Unless we kill them ALL.
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That works with enemies and threats who share the same logical paradigm. People willing to sacrifice their life in the hopes of gifts in the afterlife don't have a common basis for engagement with western logic; namely self-preservation. The western perspective, no matter how many liberals want to espouse understanding of our enemies, is totally foreign to Islamic terrorists and they have no desire to understand the western world view, because it's "evil". It’s absolutely amazing, people will argue about the oppression of homosexuals not being afforded the opportunity marry yet hope to understand people who stone women to death for infidelity.
The US and USSR were at each other's throats for decades, but no one pulled the trigger and no one sent a suicide bomber because self-preservation ruled. There is no vehicle for diplomacy when there is no basis for rational debate and when world views are so diametrically opposed, no basis exists. Understand the root causes all you want. It won’t change the fact that academic debate with individuals who seek to destroy you and consider it a holy thing to die in the process, will never provide any meaningful results.