Ashock,Nov 9 2004, 11:35 AM Wrote:I was not serious, but the Islamo-Fascists are.... or maybe you forgot the russian school already?
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There are perfectly good reasons to find terrorists and get rid of them. However, going in with the attitude of getting revenge won't help at all. Yes the muslim world in general seems to hate other religions and the U.S. and Europe in general, and yes it won't go away for a long time if ever. But going in thinking revenge makes it much easier for people do do extra stuff beyond security reasons that adds to the hate. I can see going in for mational security reasons, but revenge is pointless because it doesn't show that the U.S., Europe is any better and in the long run makes it harder to at least reduce some of this hate.
Yes, the world trade center, hostage killings, and school killings were really bad things to do. But I'd much rather head in with the attitude of "we're going to lessen this in the future and keep more people from getting killed, and show the rest of the planet that we're better" instead of "lets go kill some of those freaks".
I'm not sure if Ashock has the attitude I was talking about, it sounded like he sort of did, and I know about people who do, so this was my opinion on it. This paragraph is sort of related to the election so it isn't really off topic.
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