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Originally Posted by martinguerre
That they stoop that low ought to have no bearing on our conduct at all.
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Remember that you said that when they win.
Who is driving the fundamentalist muslim outlook of the world, the one that wants to reestablish a Caliphate under religious law from the old borders from Spain to China? They are not stupid. If their government came out and said "yeah, we're the ones pushing it", they know that it would all be over within 3 months, and they'd LOSE. So instead they fight by proxy, engaging in terrorism. The goal remains the same...the establishment by force of an Islamic state operating under Fundamentalist Islamic law world-wide, and the conversion of ALL people on Planet Earth to Islam, by the sword if necessary.
You don't win a war by being nice. It's CONFIRMED that some of the people we released from Gitmo are already back in the field against us. We had strong reasons to think they were Al Queda, but not enough evidence to prove it, so we released them, and they're killing us to show their gratitude for our "civilized" behavior.
If you'd ever been in uniform, you'd understand that there are two kinds of people. Your people, and everybody else. You do what's necessary to protect your people, regardless of who else gets hurt, because they are YOUR PEOPLE, and you are OBLIGATED to protect them. The rest of the people simply are not your responsibility. And if that means you beat the hell out of some terrorist bastard who was shooting at you a few days ago to get necessary information to track down his buddies and kill them, well, that's simply too fucking bad, and he should have thought of that possibility before he started shooting at you from ambush and while not in uniform in the first place.