04-27-2007, 04:59 AM | #91 | |
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Truth be told, I hate war. I just think that if the cause is worth going to war for, total annihilation has to be an option. At minimum, your enemy has to believe that you would consider it. If I start a fight with a guy twice my size, I have to expect him to beat my ass hard. He's not going to only hit me as hard as I hit him. He's going to use all his skills to pummel me. I would also expect him to beat the crap out of my friends that are with me and were too dumb to keep me out of trouble. |
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04-27-2007, 04:59 AM | #92 | |
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Al-Qaeda isn't a country. They don't have citizens. They don't have an army. They don't have a central command that can surrender. They don't wear uniforms. They don't negotiate. |
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04-27-2007, 05:00 AM | #93 | |
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04-27-2007, 05:01 AM | #94 |
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Japan is a strange situation.
The Japanese love us. They consider Americans as their saviors in some respects. I don't expect that many other cultures would have the same reaction to our nuking their cities. The Japanese have always been impressed with the generosity of Americans. I remember hearing the Japanese ambassador speak at BYU. He said that Hideo Nomo had done more to improve Japanese-American relations than anything else in recent history. The reason being that Americans had embraced Nomo, and had selected him as the starting pitcher in the All-Star game. The Japanese realized that they would not have done the same, and this impressed them. For all of our faults, we Americans are a generous people. We are the shining city on the hill. Let's act the part. |
04-27-2007, 05:03 AM | #95 |
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Quite often they would not. Terrorists aren't completely stupid. They need at least a degree of support from the people. If they get everyone too mad at them, everyone will operate in concert to eliminate them. They need to make it easier and safer to do nothing than to act against them. If they rape and kill everyone who helps them, it will be easier and safer to exterminate them.
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04-27-2007, 05:03 AM | #96 | |
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There was one man on the VT campus that sacrificed himself in order to save the students in his classroom. Had he not stood up to the student with the gun, there would have been more than 31 casualties.
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04-27-2007, 05:07 AM | #97 | |
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We can kick anybody in the world's ass that we want to in a conventional war, and consequently we will probably never fight one again. Like it or not these are the rules of engagement for the forseeable future. |
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04-27-2007, 05:07 AM | #98 | |
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What sense does it make to wipe out millions to get one person when you could wipe out only that one person and preserve the millions? There are lots of ways to intimidate the opposition that don't involve nuclear weapons. |
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04-27-2007, 05:09 AM | #99 | |
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Yes- one man was very brave. And we honor him and applaude his sacrifice. But do we do so while simultaneously claiming that the other 30 dead deserved to die for fleeing? |
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04-27-2007, 05:19 AM | #100 | |
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Now that we are there and the mess is made, I think you have to let them sort out what they want. Civil war? Of course. Either way, tens of thousands of lives are going to be lost. I would prefer that none of those are Americans. Now as far as the theory that us leaving would embolden the enemy. I don't buy it for a minute. Why would they attack us? They know we'll bomb the piss out of them and leave their country to civil war like we did in Iraq. |
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