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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (272984)	1/20/2010 2:48:08 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There is no "BIG DIFFERENCE" between them, no matter where you are. Read much Churchill? You should. "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." There IS A BIG DIFFERENCE between a government from which power is derived by subjugation and coercion, and a government that derives it's power by the consent of the governed. You may desire to return to government based in the "divine right of kings", but I prefer one where the people who are being governed hold the ULTIMATE power to elect, and then EJECT, REPRESENTATIVES who have pledged to advance the PEOPLE'S AGENDA. Now... if the people's agenda happens to be one where they believe they are racially/religiously superior and believe they have the right to force other people to "convert or die", they have that right. And with that right, that have the right to be confronted, killed, and ultimately defeated. Yet the same people complain about their enemies using themselves as a bomb delivery mechanism. I'm pretty sure if those people had tomahawk missiles, F22, and aircraft carriers, they'd use those rather than their children.. Children?!! You are actually justifying the use of children as human bombs?? Why can't the ADULTS make that choice to sacrifice themselves in such a manner? Why do they have to brainwash their children to do it? I don't have as much of a problem with ADULTS sacrificing themselves as human bombs against ENEMY COMBATANTS. However, I DO HAVE A PROBLEM with these suicide bombers targeting NON-COMBATANTS (that's supposedly against the Geneva Conventions). But IF THEY CHOOSE to wage "total war" against civilian populations, they shouldn't get upset when their enemy retaliates in kind. Hawk