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Originally Posted by Sethomas
I support, as McSweeney's called it, The War on Declaring Wars on Stateless Individuals and Ideologies Whose Very Nature Precludes There Ever Being an End to Said Conflicts. You know, like Terror and Drugs.
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I agree the war on some drugs is a tremendous waste of time and a collosal moral sinkhole, but I don't think it necessarily follows that teh War on Terror is the same thing because it's a war on something. This isn't a "war on violence" or a "war on all bad things that make children cry." This is the modern world drawing a line in the sand between humanity and the Dark Ages. This is a war FOR the modern, Liberal world.
We can choose to fight it or simply rope off a third of the world for the pleasure of those that still think slavery, subjugation and terror are acceptable means of controlling people. The simple fact is that the world is smaller now, and those we are toying with the idea of sacrificing already have some idea that life can be better, that freedom exists in other places. We have to ask ourselves were we ALL born free, or just those of us lucky enough to be born in the West?