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Glad to see you clarify your position. (insert mud allusion) Do you think we are justified in killing Osama and his helpers or not?
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Yes. But only insofar as it's the only way to stop him from killing others. Revenge is an idiotic motive for killing someone."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Has a preventative effect, no? Certainly the abscence of such action has the opposite, no? Ever study game theory?Comment
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Deterrence isn't the same thing as revenge."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Plus, I have no problem with vengeance here. Osama deserves it.Comment
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That's the same mentality that Osama had. That it's ok to do something bad to the enemy, just because he did something bad to us."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Yes. but our actions are in response to his. Fighting Hitler is different than being Hitler.Comment
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but not government controlled...US media isn't government funded.
Unfortunately, the US has a terrible history of supporting more evil people in an attempt to kill the evil people who are our current enemies. Remember, we once financed Osama and the Muhajadeen to fight the Soviets; then we financed Saddam against Iran. I bet in a decade or so, the Northern Alliance peoples will be our enemies... and then you'll have more people to hate, TCO...Plus, I have no problem with vengeance here. Osama deserves it.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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I don't recall intentionally killing 2,000 or so civilians....Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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More people who think that osama and the US are equivalent.Comment
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oh yeah, the innocents the US kills are "collateral damage", right? The Muslim world doesn't care about the distinction between the two.Originally posted by Lonestar
I don't recall intentionally killing 2,000 or so civilians....To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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But it is a distinction. We go to great pains to avoid Civilian causalties, even to the point of limiting our OOB. Osama et al tries for Maximum civilian deaths. I would hazard to say the Muslim world has (collectively) the IQ of a retarded eggplant if they can't see that distinction.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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I don't think they care... because as much "great pains" we take to avoid civie casualities, we still kill many, many, many more innocents of there's then they do of ours.Originally posted by Lonestar
But it is a distinction. We go to great pains to avoid Civilian causalties, even to the point of limiting our OOB. Osama et al tries for Maximum civilian deaths. I would hazard to say the Muslim world has (collectively) the IQ of a retarded eggplant if they can't see that distinction.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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So you find Osama and the US morally equivalent? Are you also against the Afghan war, Sava-girl?Comment
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MATH QUESTION:
Whats 3000 multiplied by 2?Comment
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