Taliban prisoners to be freed

[piece-itpete]

I really, really enjoy saying this: What did Sandy Burgle?

Pete

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I really, really enjoy saying this: What did Sandy Burgle?

Pete

I'll be your huckleberry. So, what did Sandy Burgle?

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

What, blow up a deserted camp or two, maybe a babyfood factory?



Yep. The sad reality is we needed to do more than aim some cruise missles. Killing terrorists is what we have to do.

Pete

Killing terrorists doesn't work. You just keep creating more of them. Al Qaeda never amounted to more then a couple of hundred guys. Yet after thousands of American casualties, it still goes keeps going on. Particularly easy to create terrorists when you have foreign invaders in your country.

[piece-itpete]

So, what, send them flowers?

Pete

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Killing terrorists doesn't work. You just keep creating more of them. Al Qaeda never amounted to more then a couple of hundred guys. Yet after thousands of American casualties, it still goes keeps going on. Particularly easy to create terrorists when you have foreign invaders in your country.

Precisely.

So, our efforts should not be to kill them, it should be to marginalize them.

Step One? Fuck their piss ant country. No invasion(s), no deployments. We just keep them out of ours and let them wither where they are until Natural Selection breeds them out.

Basically, we do WWII island hoping with a bit of Manifest Destiny reservation-style isolationism thrown in.

It's worked more than once.

[merrylander]

Thing I can't figure is if they hate us infidels so bloody much why are there so many of them over here?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Thing I can't figure is if they hate us infidels so bloody much why are there so many of them over here?

Muslims don't hate us so bloody much. Radical Islamists do. I'd wager that there is more anti-Muslim sentiment here in the US than there is anti-US sentiment in most Muslim lands. In fact, many Muslim lands actually like and admire the US, though they may disagree with some of our policies. In my travels in Turkey, Morocco and Jordan, I've never experienced any anti-Americanism whatsoever.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Thing I can't figure is if they hate us infidels so bloody much why are there so many of them over here?

You know, folks who don't like black people ask similar loaded questions about them.

Everyone thinks their own attitudes towards particular groups are justified and reasonable.

[piece-itpete]

There does appear to be a dark undercurrent in the Islamic world.

Pete

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

There does appear to be a dark undercurrent in the Islamic world.

Pete

Unfortunately, there are dark undercurrents all over the world. They become all the worse with a religious overlay.