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djrevelky1 year, 6 months ago

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So I guess its just wrong to capture and/or kill terrorist leaders because someone will step up into their place? Good logic, let's just not fight at all and let them do whatever they want because fighting them is pointless because someone takes their place.
I'm certainly glad that FDR didn't think that when Hitler died that "someone would take his place."

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  walden31 year, 6 months ago
  
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  We can't kill them all. We need to reduce the likelihood that some will turn to terror as a solution. Same as illegal drugs. What has locking up 1,000,000 Americans for drugs done? Any 15 year old kid can get anything he wants in 15 minutes.
  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
  
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    djrevelky1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    And how do we do something that will reduce the likelihood that they turn to terror as a solution?
    The belief that you can talk to and reason with Middle Eastern Radicals is more naieve that Bush and Cheney thinking that Iraq would be fine without a strong controlling force.
    Middle Eastern culture is VERY different from Western and Far Eastern culture. THe deserts breed a different kind of people that does the rest of the world.
    And of course, you can't talk to madmen. If a man is so incensed with anger, hatred, and "piety" that is willing to blow himself up kililng tens, if not hundreds, of children with him what can you say to him to make him change his mind?
    
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      walden31 year, 6 months ago
      
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      I think generally less involvement in their affairs and sovereignty would be a good first step. People don't like cops.
      
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      DaneL1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      "People don't like cops."
      I don't have a problem with cops at all. Some of my friends are cops, imagine that.
      
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        walden31 year, 6 months ago
        
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        I think the only way to win "The War on Terror" is through human rights and economic rights.
        
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        DaneL1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        I've never been one to try and reason with a mad dog. You either get away from it or kill it. If you get away from it, it becomes a problem for someone else or comes back to bite you. So it boils down to one solution.....kill it!
        
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  quackpot1 year, 6 months ago
  
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  After five-plus years of fighting with the world's best trained and equipped soldiers NO progress has been made.
  Two years ago, Petreus said that any progress would require a political solution.
  Why are you so deluded about the power of bombs to help our cause rather than hinder it?
  
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    Dionys1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    "After five-plus years of fighting with the world's best trained and equipped soldiers NO progress has been made. "
    Considering that most of their equipment is crap, exceping perhaps their weaponry, and tends to break down I'm not sure I would consider them the best equipped. Especially for the region. The same goes for training. It seems that for this particular kind of war the Afghans and fighters in Iraq had better training. Perhaps from dealing with the Soviets. Or maybe like Bin Laden they had personal training from some of the best in the CIA.
    
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      quackpot1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      If they are so well trained, why, after five-plus years, are we still training them to take over the responsibility of providing police protection for their citizens?
      Sounds to me like the Iraqi "leadership" is more interested in the gravy train of U.S. dollars than anything else.
      
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    DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    ''Why are you so deluded about the power of bombs to help our cause rather than hinder it?''
    Bush himself said terror was 'an evil ideology'
    you can't bomb an idea
    but bombs can feed and validate one
    
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  Teech1 year, 6 months ago
  
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  Actually, somebody did take his place.
  But not until 2000.
  
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