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why is this news?
did anyone really ever think that the President thought the war was winnable in the sense that there will someday not be terrorists? surely not. even if your political biases delude you into thinking that the President is actually a dimwit (which is a default label given by some people when someone has deep convictions that counter their own), did you really think the President believed in such a victory?
mr mephisto - you've got to be joking. kill them with kindness? reagan's policies brought about the soviet union's collapse by competitive aggressiveness. do you remember anything about the political climate of the time? liberals were worried sick that the arms race that took place would provoke the soviets into nuclear war. trust me, there was no kindness involved... just a squelching,intimidating and clutching competition that broke the soviet's back when they tried to match us. they were open to western forms of reform only after those ideals had soundly beaten them.
i think that many people think of islamic terrorists as people who just need a hug and a bit of understanding. just because you think you're more enlightened than your flag waiving brethren, just because you "feel for" the plight of the palestinian people, just because your a pacifist doesn't mean that those terrorists wouldn't slit your throat with the zeal that they chopped of daniel pearl's head.
these terrorists won't give you a pass if you're a Bush-hater or a demonstration marcher. they hate you because you are an infidel, because you allow your women to have equal standing, because you aren't living under a islamic theocracy, because your government won't allow them to drive the jews into the sea.
you can't rationalize a solution w/someone who believes they are committing violence on God's behalf. you can only fight back with tenacity, consistency. conviction and machievellian ruthlessness. power of the majority rules their societies, intimidation suppreses freedom... force is what they recognize. we must resist them accordingly.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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