What is it with the right wing that their answer to any foreign policy question is more killing? Why would it be in our best interest to kill even more innocent civilians, including women and children. Why wouldn't the Afghanis be upset if a rogue soldier went out and randomly killed innocent people? Oh, of course, they do it to us, so we can do it to them. An eye for eye, and soon the whole world will be blind.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Not one of your better posts. "An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world will be blind"; I Googled that one. I'm sure you know that Mahatma Ghandi said it. Don't forget that Ghandi was assassinated by a Muslim. His strategy of non violent resistance worked in gaining India's independance because he was dealing with the English. If he had tried that tactic with the Muslims, it would not have worked. To use part of the Ghandi quote that is part of your permanent posting "A good person will resist an evil system with all his or her soul". I don't think resisting is going to be sufficient with this particluar evil system. I think we are going to have to fight them all out with no regard for what the French or the UN might think.
The Japanese reaction to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to retaliate: it was unconditional surrender. The policy of half assed responses to Islamic terror will insure that terrorism will go on indefinitely.
Osama Bin Laden said that when America withdrew from Lebanon after the Marine baracks bombing, and after our weak response in Mogadishu (black hawk down), and our weak response to the USS Cole bombing, he knew that America was cowardly. He said that was why he went ahead with the 911 attack; we had shown weakness. The 911 attack was almost exactly one year after the USS Cole attack.
We can't make the Islamist's love us. But we can make them fear us.