i swear to God, it will never cease to amaze me how many ways people will try to rationalize killing children. It is like there are two types of people: those who know that child murder is unequivocally wrong and unconscionable and those who think that it can be excused with nuanced appeals to alleged pragmatism.
We will simply have to agree to disagree on the issue of child murder.
Your questions are loaded with assumptions. There wouldn't have even been a Nazi Germany if not for the previous war and resulting ridiculous "peace." But why should those of us with the moral high ground have to justify our positions? How about you answer this question: How many innocent babies' deaths are acceptable toward whatever foreign policy ends you have in mind? 1000? 10,000? All of them?
I don't know. I do know that I would answer my question to you with a no, and I do believe that taking out the terrorist leadership is important enough to risk innocent lives. That doesn't mean I like it. It's like the question of, say, do you drive the school bus off the cliff to avoid running over a baby in the street. I say no. You run over the baby to save the busload of kids. Or you kill twenty people to keep a guy from blowing up a dirty nuke in NYC. Moral relativism. It sucks. I think the drone strikes are worth it, to a point. I don't know what that point is because I am not privy to the intelligence. I do trust this president with that power and responsibility more than I do any recent predecessors, and certainly more than Romney. Drones aren't going away. They are cheap and easy, and pretty soon everyone will have them. That is going to suck.
just admit you are incapable of answering my question. for the history of the islamists and their love affair with the american neocons, watch The Power Of Nightmares - The Rise Of The Politics Of Fear, from the BBC. I don't dispute the origins of the problem, just the solutions, of which you have presented none.
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Date: 2012-10-25 09:21 pm (UTC)We will simply have to agree to disagree on the issue of child murder.
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