Live from the Middle East

[mburbank]

Alphaboy, you're a wiener. Your attempt at debate is silly and contrarian. I'd suggest you read your own last post, and then reread the article that started this post, and the following posts, and see if you can't figure out on your own what a turnip you sound like. Because lord knows I can't tell you. It's too hard. I'd have to think. So why don't you just go back and see how you are totally wrong and I am totally right, and then come back here and admit it, otherwise I'll call you names and accuse you of being morally bankrupt, which is easier.

Or here's an idea. Try being a little bit less of a douchebag and I'll adress your concerns with less 'word play'.

"It's not our job to sort out the "thems" from the "not thems"."
-Alphacleanser

I'll accept that as an argument. So, if the 'Thems' are unnaceptable, what is it our job to do? What does not accepting them mean? Can you plot if for me somewhere between not inviting them to parties and the complete eradication of all their bloodlines? It might give me some idea of where your moral bank account stands. I mean, I hate to imply that you're on the 'contrarian' side, but apart from the unloading of bile and demands that people accept your general worldview as physical law, I haven't seen much in the way of what you think should be done or what we might do differently than we are doing.

"By the way, where are Muslims being collaterally killed by Americans because they're Muslim?"
-Alphabobtuse

Well, I certainly don't think it's a matter of policy. I think collateral death loads have a lot more to do with immediate geographical location when things blow up or bullets are flying. I also think this collateral death adds to the overal number of those in the 'them' column more quickly than it subtracts. I hope I answered that question without being in some way offensive or blind. Feel free to disagree, but try to be nice.

"By whitewashing the situation or attempting to turn the guilt back towards the United States you are in effect responsible for the continued abuse of innocent Muslims by Muslims themselves."
-Alphabwithmeoragainstme

Ouch. So as opposed to having an opinion based on my personal moral convictions and beliefs about what the United States ought to be, I'm actually an accomplice to murder. Where as you, who are (I assume) an actual suporter of the actual use of actual bombs which we know for a fact sometimes kill actual innocent people, have clean hands. And here I'd been assuming that you and I were exchanging ideas on a message board. Plus, I'd been feeling more connected by my tax dollars and my citizenship with abuses we commit on Muslims than I was with Muslim on Mulsim violence I'm resposible for via attitude and typing. I will have to reevaluate.

"...and if you don't disagree, there's no reason to respond , Burbank."
Alphabahanh?

That's true if you see this discussion as having the following dimensions.
A.) Alphaboy is absolutely right about everything he says.
OR
B.) Alphaboy is absolutely wrong about everything he says.

I would suggest that anyone who sees only these two possabilities should never, ever call anyone else a child.

C.) Alphaboy, while quite correct in many of his observations, is often very wrong in the conclusions he draws, and often insists that his correct observations are the only relevant information as opposed to a product of tunel vision. Which is not to say that the limmited scope of this vision is not valid.


And Preech; I'm utterly exhausted now. I shall have to return to your perfectly reasonable opposition to my statements after some thought, and perhaps a nap.