Minionman,Nov 10 2004, 09:52 PM Wrote:You just love to talk tough, and seem to be assuming that if there are enough bombings, all the problems will go away from that region. That viewpoint is totally wrong.
You do say that terrorists will go after anyone and anything. That doesn't change whether there are a ton of revenge bombings or not. There are a lot of people who simply have a lot of hate floating in them. Some revenge bombings won't change that, so doing them just to show how tough you are is a waste of people's lives and money. In your rabid dog example, you shoot the rabid dog, you don't shoot another dog to try and scare the rabid one off. Maybe you shoot another animal by accident if it's near the dog and the dog is running to attack someone, but that's it.
Do I suggest taking the "high road"? Sort of, because in this case I think the "high road" can be more effective a lot of the time. Hopefully people have added extra security, and the intelligence and military people can find some of these terrorists and either kill or capture them. But revenge bombings don't help with that, and over the long term, hurt, killing people for esentially nothing. And of course the U.S. still will be around for a long time in the future, so revenge bombings now mean people are more willing to do them in the future, instead of finding other ways to deal with problems.
I'm not going to talk about world war 2, but the firebombings and atom bomb are part of it so you will have to talk about it, and not tell people to "zip it", if you bring up cruelty in the war.
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I am not suggsting revenge bombings. That is for weak cowards, those who specialize in picking on the weak and the helpless, and therefore that is what the terrorists choose to do. We don't need to do that. We just need to kill them, all of them. Taking the high road and letting them be, is the reason we are here in the first place now. You say that my view is totally wrong? Well, your POV is what led us here.
The reason I said "zip it" about WW2, is because that is a whole can of worms that has been beaten to death, and that belongs in it's own separate thread, if you feel like talking about. Oh and just in case you are confused, bombings as in bombs from airplanes during a war and bombings as in car bombings etc, are two different things.
I'll tell you what would be effective. Lets take the example of the russian school. There are around 500 kids who were killed there, give or take a couple of dozen of little infidels. Well, you take 500 muslim chechen families. You put the kids in foster homes (unlike the terrorists, I would not suggest killing kids under any circumstances), and you kill all the adults. You announce that this will be the standard procedure every time a similar event happens. Guaranteed to severely cut down future incidents of such nature. Would I personally do this? Probably not. I'm not that ruthless. The point is that the terrorists are. They simply can not be reasoned with. It's been tried, over and over and over. And over. Did I mention over and over? Ok good, I wasn't sure. Therefore, they all need to be killed. End of story. If you don't agree, fine. I don't really care.
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