And that doesn't sound anything like Ron Paul's stuff to you? Nothing like his whole "Saddam never hurt us" schtick?
OK so you can't dig up any quotes of Pauls saying he wouldn't deal with those attacks. You could have just said that.
I didn't try. First, I never said that Ron Paul said that, so I would never look for evidence to back up something I never said. Second, as I pointed out, Bill Clinton said some very tough things about those attacks, and he never did anything about them that counted. So, even if RP said "We will hunt these guys down until they are dead and I'll put their heads on pikes outside my office" it doesn't really matter.
No I haven't Now let me ask you a serious question. What the Hell does that have to do with what we're talking about?
Therein lies the problem--you don't know why in the world I'd compare Osama to Hitler. You not only haven't a clue, you probably don't know what color the clue bag is.
What the hell is the matter with you that you can't simply admit that our policies have consequences attached to them?
You ask that after citing Japan and Germany? What is the matter with you and Ron Paul that you can't simply admit that some people are so evil that we shouldn't give a flying flip why they don't like outr policies? Should we have changed our policies to make Tojo and Hitler like us?
I'm not one. I'm a Thompson guy. And I'll thank you to stop the insults.
When you defend a guy who wants to cede a battlefield to Al Qaida, you should expect to be insulted. Deal with it.
We can.
Why was toothpaste restricted for a period of time? C'mon, you can do it!
An unarmed airline flight attendant managed to stop Richard Reid, so yes I think they could.
Hmmm... I wasn't aware that vigilance required a pistol. Don't get me wrong, I support arming pilots, but there's nothing about having a gun that makes one more likely to detect a team of bombers assembling a bomb in a lavatory.
And you know, isn't it a bummer that those "socialists" at Homeland Security inspect our shoes for explosives?
An armed pilot would have blown his head off and the rest of the flight wouldn't have been spent listening to Reids insane ramblings.
Did Reid attempt his attack because:
A. The 9/11 attacks succeeded.
B. The 9/11 attacks failed because the pilots shot the hijackers.
C. Flight 93 failed to reach its target so he needed to make up for it.
D. He wanted to kill infidels.
Surely you must have an answer.
Exactly how would Islam take over and conquer America?
And if they are capable of destroying and conquering America, why does our current administration continue to allow into our country, tens of thousands of Muslims routinely and legally?
Nope.
Should we have changed our policies to make Tojo and Hitler like us?
If Roosevelt hadn't been such a blundering idiot regarding the Japanese we might not have had to fight the Pacific campaign at all, or at least we would have fought it with the entire Pacific fleet.
Therein lies the problem--you don't know why in the world I'd compare Osama to Hitler
Oh I do alright. It's just that your comparison doesn't hold water. In fact historically it's pretty stupid when you think about it. Hitler had at his command an entire nation-state. Osama runs a franchise operation from a cave. He has next to no operational control over his followers. In fact he's only still alive because the 'tribal areas' of Pakistan haven't been visited by enough American B-52s.
What is the matter with you and Ron Paul that you can't simply admit that some people are so evil that we shouldn't give a flying flip why they don't like outr policies
I have no problem admitting it. I want them dead. What I'm sick of is pussyfooting around in Iraq when we know where the source of the problem is, and it ain't in Anbar province. Anbar is just a symptom.
The sources of the poison are three. In order they are Tehran, Riyadh, and Damascus. That's where we should be killing jihadis. Turn the heads of these snakes into smoking rubble and there won't be anyone to pay for and facilitate their entry into Iraq.
Then we can get the hell out of there and they can go back to what they do best, which is killing each other like they have been for the last 2,000 years.
Why was toothpaste restricted for a period of time?
Toothpaste was restricted because a bunch of idiots at the TSA didn't realize that it's virtually impossible to bring down a modern airliner with 5 ounces of home made explosive detonated in the passenger compartment.
And Richard Reid did what he did because he's an ignorant loser. He's no more a religious warrior than Tim McVeigh was. And btw, Reid left from Heathrow Airport, not anywhere in the ME. Should we have invaded Britain?
but there's nothing about having a gun that makes one more likely to detect a team of bombers assembling a bomb in a lavatory.
Guns don't detect bombs, but a .40 caliber round through the cranium will deter even the most ardent jihadist.
This 'building a democracy in the ME' is a fools errand. Those people have no history of it, they have no want of it, and when they have anything that even resembles it they vote for murderous thugs a la the 'palis'. Israel works because the Jews have a 4,000 year history of civilized behavior.
Arabs, particularly muslim arabs, do not have any such history. It's been one long unbroken line of murderers stretching all the way back to that syphilitic pedophile mohamet. Pi** on the lot of 'em.
It's not our job to 'build' their democracy or their country. That's their job. So I say use the airbases we've got established there now to pound the living hell out of our enemies in the region most specifically Tehran and Damascus, although I'd smoke Riyadh and Mecca and lay waste to a large portion of Pakistan just on general principle.
Then hand the Iraqi Provisional Government the keys and wish 'em the best of luck.
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