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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Keith Feral who wrote (149287)10/27/2004 3:03:02 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Keith, you wrote; "I think that is an absurd comparisons... The jihadists or islamofascists kidnap innocent civilians from their own country and behead them if impossible demands are not met. Our soldiers are imprisoned if they punish the prisoners."

I don't think the point was that there is a precise parallel in terms of methods, but rather that there is a strong parallel in terms of embracing the use of force to impose our ideological view of "good" lifestyles on others, embracing the view that the ends justify the means and accepting that innocent lives must be sacrificed to secure the ends. I don't think you can examine our strategies in Iraq without coming to the conclusion that those similarities are present.

Or maybe you can find some other way to explain our policy which approves firing missiles into crowds of civilians in order to kill one or more terrorists who "may" be present? Or using force to give them the "freedom that is a 'god-given' right of all people?"
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