To: Cogito who wrote (53013 ) 11/5/2006 5:51:02 PM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Bill said: "I can say with certainty that killing terrorists lessens their ability to attack."..."How can you say it doesn't?" "...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." Apparently you think those particular terrorists are important to your argument. I guess if they are captured are killed they won't be "free to continue to plot against us and to recruit and train new terrorists. " "Your interpretation of what I originally said is bizarre and illogical. ""Osama bin Laden and his right-hand man Zawahiri" to remain capable of plotting, recruiting, and training was explicitly as a rejoinder to Bill's claim that killing terrorists did indeed lessen their ability to plot, recruit, and train. There is as obvious implication in your response that these particular terrorists are important enough to belie Bill's argument. Hence, I suggested that THEIR elimination might encourage (even you) to consider that Bill was making somewhat of a point. It seems obvious that eliminating high level leadership and/or weapons specialists and trainers would significantly impact on the ability of terorists to further their wanton agenda. For you to call my terse summary of this more detailed explanation "a bizarre construction" is flaky and thoughtless, IMO."As for the fact that you missed another post I referred to, I can only say that if you're going to participate in a debate, the least you can do is try to keep up. "I had not discussed that with you. You introduced it and I admitted I was unfamiliar with it. It is sometimes difficult to read all posts and it is impossible to catch all passing references from links to links between threads and between posts on threads."try to keep up". That is unfair and it is untrue. I hope you are merely being flippant rather than making such a terrible accusation.
