Re: Bush planning nuke attack on Iran?

JC Martin wrote:

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Telling someone that they're justifying the the attacks on 9/11 is a personal attack IMO.

In all intellectual honesty, I do not consider that to be a personal attack (and I hope you don't take my question below to a be a personal attack on you). When I read statements that seem to be looking for, or providing, rationale for terrorist attacks on civilians, I think that it is very fair to point out when these heinous acts are being given undue justification and I have to ask questions.

I did not call anyone names, and did I attack you or Richard (nor will I).

Who would actually want to justify such madness?

So then, please tell me this: how can your statements below *not* be construed as a form of justification for those attacks? After all, you're basically saying "they have no other alternative" and "we should have handled the situation differently in the first place."

The point is that desperate people do commit desperate acts. That's reality. You can't solve an equation without identifying all the variables. A group of poor people or a poor nation doesn't have modern military might. Terrorism is their only weapon. It's old-school warfare I'm talking about. The difference is that technology has advanced to the point that they can do far more damage than before.

"Terrorism is their only weapon". "Old school warfare". That's your justification. How can it not be??

The solution to this mess was to take out Al Qaeda in the hills of Afghanistan, rather than the asking the Northern Alliance to do the work for us, and working more closely with our allies in terms of changing the way we've been doing business in the Middle East. I believe the western world has the intellectual capacity to figure this sort of stuff out. But war or occupation doesn't promote goodwill (it's a fairly loose band-aid really), and make no mistake, Arabs aren't nearly as passive as the Europeans or the Japanese. Muslims have a strong faith in which they will sacrifice their lives for. Sound familiar?


I can agree with all of the above, but will add that our temporary occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq may very well accomplish the necessary changes in the Middle East. Isn't that just as possible?
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