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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (235536)6/3/2005 1:37:08 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1571806
 
tejek, you absolutely do fight hate with bombs and tanks. Let me explain.

The majority of Muslims are law-abiding, peaceful people with opinions. Most of those opinions are currently anti-American. And that's ok. We can work with them, because many have misconceptions or specific grievances that can be educated away or negotiated with.

Have you stopped for a minute and thought about why the majority of Muslims who are law abiding hate us so much? And please don't tell me that they are jealous of what we have. The majority of the suicide bombers who committed the 9/11 atrocity were from the upper middle classes.

However, there is an extremist element that has nurtured their hate and taken it a step further. They have turned to indiscriminate killings and violence. These people cannot be negotiated with. They don't owe allegiance to any specific government and they don't follow any rules of decency or of law. They make no demands and they do nothing but attack or plot attacks. These we have to fight mercilessly and give no quarter.

We have and we continue to do so. What has been the result? Its estimated the insurgents now have more than 200,000 men fighting in Iraq......more than the army divisions we have based there. The more killing of innocent people by Americans, the more the hate grows. We were in Vietnam nearly 20 years. If at the end of 20 years in Iraq, we manage to kill every last insurgent, what do you think we will have gained?
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