Some years ago my then wife and I knew a nice young woman - very pretty, very kind at heart. She had alot of personal troubles and did not pick her men well. Well, the last one she picked got her into heroin, and one night while out on a drug deal with him they were both brutally, and, for her, slowly murdered by a drug dealer they were attempting to buy from. Did that change my mind on the drug war? Did I suddenly decide that all drugs are intrinsicly evil and that we should throw more money and more resources and more lives at the drug war? Should we put to death all dealers and perhaps even hard core users? Hell no - if we didn't have our drug laws, there would be no tremendous profits to be made by the most violent in our society and my friend might well be alive today. Even if she were hooked on heroin, at least it would be cheap and clean and not the dangerous stuff that's cut with all sorts of chemicals and kills people over time. I feel the same way about 9/11. Why is it that the terrorists are attacking us? Is it because they "hate freedom"? No, it's because of western intervention in the Middle East over the last 100 years. I will grant that I find Islam somewhat worrisome in it's treatment of non-Muslims and that we should be on guard against religious extremism and any demands that Islamists or others put on our legal system.
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