Posted on 05/15/2009 3:12:23 PM PDT by ventanax5
To confront radical evil on its own terms—and that cannot always be avoided—carries the risk of contagion. Terrorists who kill large numbers of noncombatants in order to tear apart the social fabric through “terror and horror” (Schrecken und Entsetzen, as Goebbels liked to cite Luther) embody such evil. They dare us to respond in kind, for example, by attacking the civilian populations that host terrorists, in which they lurk and by employing “enhanced interrogation,” or torture, on a large scale in operations against them. Their strategic objective is to make the conduct of war too horrible for the West to endure. On past occasions, including the Algerian War and the Vietnam War, they succeeded.
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“Their [terrorists] strategic objective is to make the conduct of war too horrible for the West to endure.”
Well, dang, let’s just go in and arrest them then.
Well, dang, let’s just go in and arrest them then.”
If not a mail in Ticket for disturbing the peace will do!
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