[Tolik]

Nailed It!
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[satchmodog9]

I could never see Israels response to this event as wrong. The terrorism against the Olympians was an act of war and if Israel wanted to hunt them down, good for Israel. More countries should do things like this. Exterminate the filth off the planet one at a time.

[ClearCase_guy]

That's why the movie is a paean to "stop the cycle of violence."

The Muslims who wish to push all the Jews into the sea will not stop the cycle of violence. It's what they are all about.

If the Jews were to listen to Spielberg and unilaterally "stop the cycle of violence" then they would be committing suicide. Bit by bit, murder by murder, the Muslims would kill all the Israelis and the Jews wouldn't fight back, because they wouldn't want to contrinute to the "cycle of violence".

It's asinine. Spielberg is no moralist and no pragmatist. He's child-like in his approach to this problem.

[Kenton]

There's this essential problem with "turning the other cheek". You quickly run out of cheeks.

[randita]

Why should those terrorists not be brought to justice just because they were "international" and committed the crimes in another country than their own against athletes who weren't in their home country?

When a domestic legal system is not at your disposal to guarantee justice, justice has to be sought through other means. That's not a cycle of violence nor is it revenge. It is simply justice.

[Publius6961]

I always have fun with the "we are no better than they are" school of argumentation.
At best it is a cover for cowardice and the application of the "I am a victim" mindset.

At worst a very poor substitute for thinking, an invitation to world predators and a road to eventual cultural suicide.

[JamesP81]

The primary reason for doing what Israel wasn't about and shouldn't have been about revenge. Oh, I'm sure it made a nice fringe benefit but the point is this: they needed to make the world understand that if you do BS things like this then, no matter what happens, you will not profit from it. The only possible result for you is pain, suffering and death. This helps deter future aggression.

[brownsfan]

"So while the film is dedicated to the proposition that men involved in killing murderers become themselves morally inferior beings and therefore pay a great personal price for their war on evil"

Which makes the film incorrect and irrelavent.
I'm not a hunter. I don't see anything wrong with it, but I don't enjoy killing. However, if I were in a group such as these fine Israelis, I would have no problem and no remorse. For civilization to remain civilized, justice is a requirement. In the case portrayed in this film, I have no doubts, none, that I could kill and not pay "a great personal price".

[ncountylee]

Hey Steven...lots of us would take very poorly to those close to us being harmed by anyone, which includes the death cult, pedophile following mindless robots.

[b9]

the Left has lost its hatred of evil, its ability to recognize evil and, most of all, any desire to wage war against it.

So have too many parents, IMO.

[colorado tanker]

"Cy-cle: A periodically repeated sequence of events."

One successful Pali attack on the Israeli Olympic Team hardly qualifies. I'd judge the Israeli action a success.