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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
This doesn't mean we need to kill all arabs, "stop islam", or whatever other ridiculous responses this discussion will result in. People can think and believewhatever they want. You wanna hate the West? Awesome. You don't like Jews? Super. But the message must be sent that if you act out on those impulses violently, or if another state supports those actions, then you will be stopped. Your freedom to be ignorant and hateful stops at my nose, so to speak.
This is the crucial debate in my mind.
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If it were that simple there would be no argument. State retaliation for another state's acts of war is a foregoone conclusion.
But we aren't for that anymore cuz "we can't have a smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud".
So pretty much, all we are left with is deciding when we're going to invade the people we are quite reasonably sure want to kill us.
Fight madness with madness. It's the only way to go.