I'd like to stop this discussion :-) you get in one more good reply and then I'm dropping it
> Then does that give people in Afghanistan and Iraq the right to attack > America? As it does seem that (some) Americans want to kill them. I said "we only want to kill them because they want to kill us" if they stop, we stop if they don't we don't > > The fact that "some" people want to kill you is not reason enough to > indiscriminately wage war on a country. In fact it is a bad idea from a > tactical point of view, as attacking someone will INCREASE their will to > kill you. yeah but we're so powerful we'll win that's the point of wars > Any strategy that uses cruelty and capriciousness is clearly not going > to make anyone love the cruel and capricious party (U.S. and allies). > Therefore that clearly must not be the reason that these tactics are > used. The Bush administration is not *that* stupid. seems like we're already hated, what's the loss > > (Bin Laden doesn't use cruelty to make people not want to kill him. He > uses it because he wants to start a holy war.) > we'd be glad to oblige him -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]