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Originally Posted by stevo
you're right. there wouldn't be war, we'd all be dead. You have no idea what you are talking about. you do nothing but make assumptions and chase conspiracies. When you say things like "Militaries and terrorists both can actually be forces of good in the world" it makes me want to call you a bunch of names that are against forum rules. So maybe I'll come back tomorrow. who knows.
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This is coming dangerously close to a personal attack, stevo. I suggest that you calm down, ignore me, or hit the back button. Terrorism, like militarism, is supposed to be a last resort because they are both morally reprehensable. I think we can all agree that it's wrong to kill people. Terrorism, while obviously a horrible action,
can provide positive results. But, again and as I've said, the ends do not justify the means. Likewise the ends (a possibly democratic and epaceful Iraq decades from now, if ever) do not justify the means (massive full scale civil war that is killing our troops and is completly unnecessary) in many wars, ESPICALLY wars of aggression. Is it really worth it to you personally to pay taxes to fund the invasion of a country that clearly was no threat to us? I mean seriously, it's like the only life with value is American life to some people.
As for conspiracies and assumptions, what about the WMDs and al Qaeda links? What about lie after lie coming from the highest ranks in government in order to allow a war that otherwise wouldn't have happened? I mean, that's what a conspiracy is. They assumed they could get away with it.