On a couple of notes here, as an American who has served in the Military, and been in Spec. Forces, and studied a "little" current events and history, I wonder if we could appear to have learned something from WW1 and WW2, in that the way to _END_ (regardless of the military outcome) the war is to give hope and a future to those whom considered you the enemy. Look at the marshal plan and what it did for Europe after WW2. Do you believe the proud German people would have not started another war in 20 years if they did not recognize that they had more hope with commerce than bullets? I wish we had the sense to help the common folks in the countries that will be attacked BEFORE we have to attack them. Making a peace that would last with the same people whom are still upset about the crusades would not be _easy_, but it might be worthwhile. The real problem (as I see it) is that they might have to agree that I have as much right to the air to breath as they do. On the same but slightly different note, if MY genocide is the only thing YOUR religion will allow for ME, then where do I draw the line as far as YOUR genocide? If you want to kill me, you are gonna have a bloody mess on your hands before one of us is dead, and what happens afterwards with both the bodies? I see a lot of room for comparison between the Vikings in the first thousand years AD and these terrorists. How hard is it to fight a foe that believes that by dyeing in order to kill you they get to go to heaven? War on any Nation that believes that my children do not have the right to exist, and is willing to raise and wage war in order to prevent my children from living and sharing the air, is not only justified, it may be the only choice other than laying down and dyeing. The real question at some point becomes, at what point do we acknowledge that we only have those choices. I have never "wished" to killsomeone, but even if the war has questionable beginings, (and I don't think to many questions will be asked by history any more than we asked if we were correct to battle Japan in WW2) I would not hasitate to kill anyone that I believed intend to harm myself or my family. I would LOVE to see (and the chance of this happening are damn slim) Pres. Bush decide to back the world court and allow American and any other head of state to be tried for war crimes. I am pretty sure that might give the "enemy" a chance to show themselves, and release some frustrations on the proper people in an lawfull and orderly fashion, and not on people considered to be innocent. I was upset by the Afgan Gov. statement warning the US Gov that if "INNOCENT AND SINLESS" people are killed, more suicide bombings will occur. I am pretty sure that some innocent and sinnless peple (as sinless anyway) were killed. I do agree that if you protect the people whom want to kill me, you might be protecting people whom you do not really have the ability to protect. in fact, by my standards, if someone is shooting at me, and hidding behind you, and you say, do not shoot in my direction, because the person behind me trying to kill you is a friend of My Gods, then if you do not denounce HIS right to kill me, I may as well send you both to meet your God. I want peace as much as anyone, and have more disrespect for my countries Goverment than most ex-GIs and I have been out of the Military for 20 some years, but if I can not help you to respect me and allow me my peace, then I will treat you as equal to how you treat me. If I am not allowed life, then neither are you. No Person should be more important or less allowed life and joy than any other. One Of the greatest problems I am aware of in America, and the point of MY hositilty towards my own contry is that I FIRMLY believe that a persons right to joy should trump a corporations right to profits, and in America, not only have our Courts and Goverments decided that profit is MUCH more important than indivduales right to joy, but we have made laws that prevent a corporation form being put out of business, even if the intentally kill people for the sake of profit, and even if the profit (after expensises including exec. salary) is miniscule and not enough to compensate for the life taken. WE must have accountablility even in OUR leaders.
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