[billybudd]

The difference between now and WW2 is that Germany and Japan transformed their entire economic-industrial structures to being a war machine. So the US could justify, for example, bombing a factory or a railroad, because they were ostensibly used in direct support of waging war on the US.

That's not the case at all with terrorism today. These are tiny groups of professionals paid by governments, such as the US, to set off bombs. So, total war on a country makes no sense here. There is no nationwide enemy mobilization. It really is more like a criminal prosecution where we need to find the individuals involved.

Otherwise we risk exactly what's happening now, killing a bunch of innocent people and creating more terrorists.

[Resolute Conservative]

Have you been? The muzzies you meet here are not the same as the ones over there. The whole culture is at war, with us, with each other. The ones you see here are the 1% that actually are smarter than a rock.

As I said either we are all in or all out, I am tired of this half-assed approach to win hearts and minds. I couldn’t care less what happens over there as long as we are out of there. We have more to do here than over there. If we are going to go however I am perfectly at peace with more of their blood being spilled than ours.

[binreadin]

Sir, I don’t agree with you wholeheartedly, but I do respect your argument and appreciate your point of view. I would like to apologize for the treatment you have received on this forum, which usually avoids the type of personal attacks you have received here. I’m sorry about that, and I admire your persistence in pressing your point of view.

[James C. Bennett]

Turning the other cheek is neither practical nor logical, but often suicidal.