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To: michael97123 who wrote (205)	5/15/2007 3:26:13 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 4152

"Assymetric warfare works both ways." No it doesn't. Not when the cultures are this dissimilar. Not when one is a homogenous nation and the other is a diversely disconnected mass of people blended into the multi-various countries, cultures and subcultures of the world. Use of military is taking an authoritarian role to force change, which is fine when justified. I will give you an example learned in education. If a teacher has a kid who insists on disrupting every lesson to get the attention of the other kids, the teacher has three choices. 1. She can ignore the problem and hope it goes away. It wont because the kid is working for a particular outcome and ignoring him guarantees the results ... loss of control of the group and a disrupted chaotic classroom. 2. The teacher can come down very hard on the kid until his behavior is extinguished or he is out of the classroom. That works as long as the teacher abides by the rules of the system. Hint: Just because the kid can survive while breaking rules doesn't mean the teacher can. 3. The teacher can punish classmates for the behavior of the student, or for being friendly to the disrupter, or encouraging or laughing at the disruptive student, hoping they will retaliate against him. This is the most risky. It wont work unless the kid is a sociopath that all the kids hated in the first place, which is not the usual for disruptive kids... they are usually funny or charming or tough or in some other way popular. The most likely outcome when employing option three is that the normally respectful kids lose respect for the teacher and band with the disruptive kid in mass disobedience. If you choose example three and retaliate against innocent emblematic targets of Islam you are A. Breaking the rules of your own game (fighting for principles of decency and justice). B. Targeting the innocent will rally the sideliners against you. Not just Muslims but other Western nations. C. You lose any moral ground you may have had to base your position on so what would you claim to be fighting for?

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