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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (52953)	11/4/2006 5:06:29 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

>>I can say with certainty that killing terrorists lessens their ability to attack. How can you say it doesn't?<< Bill - Sure, it completely eliminates the ability of the few we do kill. Those few can no longer harm us. But since the terrorists are not all in one country, not even mostly in one country, and since they're not in one place in that country, we are spending massive amounts of money, and risking our soldiers' lives and limbs to accomplish little in the way of reducing the number of terrorist by killing them. Meanwhile the terrorists in other places, including Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man Zawahiri, are free to continue to plot against us and to recruit and train new terrorists. And because of the tactics that must be employed by a large military force in trying to root out an enemy that conceals itself within a civilian population, we are actually generating more ill will and helping the terrorists with their recruitment efforts as we go along. For every one we kill, there are probably ten new ones recruited. Therefore, we are not making ourselves any safer by "fighting them over there" as Bush claims. - Allen