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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (215512)	1/20/2005 8:27:26 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573952

Terrorism is important to me when it is directed at Americans. Because it is, we need to confront it wherever it is. As far as heart diseas, I exercise regularly. As far as getting hit by a truck, I look both ways. We assess risks and we minimize them. Going after terrorism and the regimes that support it is risk minimization at its best. As far as invading Muslim regions and dictating their form of government, that is ludicrous. We invaded because we were attacked. I'd much rather fight them in their homeland then have them fight our civilians here. And if you haven't noticed, Afghanistan created their own form of government that start out of a loya jirgha (sp?) and Iraq is in the midst of creating it's own form of government. We don't impose anything other than ensuring that it is pluralistic and respects the rights of minorities. Do you have a problem with those simple precepts? They seem universal to me. Lastly, you seem to think this is about our superpower status. You couldn't be more wrong. Who cares who is the superpower? I sure don't. But I do care that we were attacked. Like I said before, we have to ensure that any attack against us results in so much pain for those who attacked us and for those who remotely supported the attack. In that way, everyone knows what's coming. If they want to attack us, they will have to pay a price that is worse than what they did to us. If we can't earn their respect through our ideals and gain peace in that way (and with the jihadis it's clear they will never be able to live in peace with Westerners), then we will ensure they fear us enough to leave us alone.