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To: lorne who wrote (75115)	4/5/2006 1:10:05 PM
From: Cogito	of 81568

>>I think Iran leaders would supply radical muslims with nukes or other WMD...Yes . The big problem would be to decide which country to vaporize as radical islam could come from any country...even the USA. so maybe it would be a good idea to prevent this scenario from ever happening. The 9/11 islamic terrorist killers were from different countries and the obtained their weapons from the country they attacked... this war against radical islam is IMO unlike any war the free world has ever faced in the past so maybe new rules need to be applied.<< Lorne - You think the leadership of Iran would believe they could supply nukes to radicals with impunity? After 9/11, we went after the leadership in Afghanistan, because they were openly harboring bin Laden. I supported that action. If Iran were to supply a nuclear weapon to a radical islamist group, they know that we would know where that group got it. They also know that we would come after them if they did that. I would support that action as well. This war against radical islam IS different. It is so different that relying primarily on the military to fight it isn't working, and will never work. If we try to attack everybody who might harm us first, we will never be secure. It's just not going to work, because we will never be able to find all the people who want to harm us, and we make new enemies when we throw our military weight around. There is still the moral issue, too. 9/11 may have changed some people's perceptions of what is going on in this world, but it didn't change right and wrong. Attacking and killing people because you think they might attack you is wrong. This brings us right back to the first point. The innocent die along with the (potentially) guilty when we strike out at our presumed enemies. When we kill innocent people, that gives our real enemies more political ammunition against us, and aids in their recruitment. It's a never ending cycle. - Allen

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