[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

If they do strike us, what should we do? Should we give them hugs? Should we get them to talk about their childhood?

do you let a guy with a knife shank you or do you shank him first?

This is sort of like the old line from the movie "The Untouchables": 'They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.'

When your enemy wants to utterly destroy you, you should not seek to understand them but understand that they must be destroyed. If not them, you.

What's not to understand about that?

[Peter J. Huss]

When your enemy wants to utterly destroy you, you should not seek to understand them but understand that they must be destroyed. If not them, you.

What's not to understand about that?

Whoooaaa! Show down Tex! Yer' shootin' too fast! Where I use the word 'understand' in my above post? Still...

I slightly disagree with you. We should understand and destroy them. The 'understand' part does not mean sympathetic. I mean 'understand' in the tatical sense, in the Art of War sense.

[AFreeBird]

"What are you prepared to do?"