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Originally Posted by Preechr
A free Iraq is in our best interests as well as that of the world, and cooking up an environment that will support a free Iraq is absolutely consistent with the larger picture of a world without terrorism.
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I'd like to agree with you, but i don't think it's quite that peachy. Afterall, you could make a very sound argument that having a stable, totalitarian Iraq was good for our security, too. I mean, dig up the story on the 100 Saudi terrorists arrested in Iraq during a sting operation. The country that produced our 9/11 terrorists is STILL producing them!
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Islamic extremism does not breed terrorism. The fact that terrorism works breeds terrorism. Everybody adopts some sort of moral code for their behavior, including Muslims. The vast majority of Muslims do not kill people in support of their religion. The vast majority of Christians have never blown up an abortion clinic. The vast majority of Irishmen have never set off a car bomb.
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I disagree, and perhaps I ironically take a harder stance on this than you, but I think this
is in fact an ideological problem rather than a tactical problem. I think the
enemy is Islamic extremism, and the difference between it and the other examples you provided is that radical Islam has a pervasive problem all throughout it, one that the others have already addressed to a great extent.
Yes, most muslims haven't personally killed themselves in a pizza place or a bus. But a lot of muslims seem really, really good at making excuses for that minority of murderers, and there is the key distinction, IMO.
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The more terrorists we kill, the more chances we get to kill those that recruit and train the foot soldiers. The more terrorist leaders we kill, the more ineffectual terrorism becomes.
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I agree, but it takes more than this. Killing all of the terrorists seems rather implausible. There needs to be something internal within Islam and the Arab world, something that the barrel of a gun can't change.