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Originally posted by powerclown
Terrorism is unstoppable by nature. You cannot stop anyone willing to kill themselves to inflict damage upon innocents. If the Israelis can't stop it in their small country, then *nobody* can. Bush has only poured gasoline on the fire.
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The Israelis can't stop terrorism because their hands are frequently tied by, ironically, the US.
We lost the Vietnam war because we were unwilling to commit to doing what needed to be done when it needed to be done.
Now we have a pack of democratic presidential candidates that would hamstring us in the war against terrorists.
When will we learn?
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine the 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers