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In fact, I think it plays into Dems hand because they just point and shout "Look, they're trying to start a holy war!"

They can say it, but most rational people will dismiss it.
We are in a war. We didn't start it. Denying reality has never made it go away.

We are in a war. We didn't start it. Denying reality has never made it go away.

Sure, but against a couple of random people in the desert who haven't been fond of our foreign policy for the last 50 years - not against a religion with a membership of 1.2 billion people. Policing a civil war in Iraq against a small group which is just trying to make it harder for the US is hardly a war, and we'd do better by spending our time actually finding and disrupting the actual networks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Talk of banning a religion and conflating the "war" into a crusade against a religion (by mischaracterizing it and demonizing anyone associated with it - which is, remarkably, done by those who are more religious themselves...) doesn't do well with rational people either. This is one of the most absurd and embarrassing threads I've read on FR in a long time.