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Originally posted by Mike AI@Jun 16 2003, 04:11 PM
Of course I am one that thinks KILLING terrorist is the only way to stop them.
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Actually the guys who flew a couple planes into buildings and the guys strapping bombs on themselves and walking into dance clubs in Isreal are doing a pretty good job of that themselves.
You do realize that a lot of these terrorists want us to attack the Middle East so they can be justified in their jihad? While I agree we can't negotiate with terorrists (how do you convince someone living oin total poverty in the desert that barely has electricity in his home that the promise of 100 channels of HBO and a 30 cents per gallon savings on gasoline is better than an afterlife in paradise with 100 virgins at his beck and call?) but just bombing willy nilly doesn't exactly fix the problem either. OK, so the attack on Iraq was a pre-emptive strike...so what are we doing to solve the problems that already exist?
How are we restoring "goodwill and rebuilding" these countries we've already targeted? Just because they aren't exactly shooting at us anymore in Afghanistan, it doesn't mean they like us and there is really very very little we can do to change that...or do you have a master plan? I'd like to hear it. How do we rebuild these countries and get rid of the resistance? How do we make them like us and start buying our products rather than have them wish they knew how to fly airplanes?
While I understand the short term reasons behind the bombing and fist shaking (whether I agree with them or not is beside the point), I'd really like to see what the long term plans are (besides giving more cushy post-bombing session jobs to Haliburton). We can have a McDonalds on every block in Afghanistan and give them pay per view access to Wrestlemania XX, but that still doesn't mean we've gotten rid of the deep resentment they have for us.