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Originally Posted by JP5
Did your Mother say anything to you about defending yourself? How many times would you stand by and watch your family members be attacked and killed...one by one.... before you acted? After all, we didn't start this war with the Islamic extremists. They've attacked us time and time again----WAY before we got smart and began defending ourselves by going on the offensive against them. Two important themes came out of the 911 Commission.....#1) they were at war with us, but we weren't with them, and #2) we failed to 'connect the dots.'
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... 'cause that's the exact same logic used to justify every single attack on anyone, ever!
I mean, think about it. From the point of view in someone in the Middle East, we actually
did start this war. We're the aggressors and we're the ones that can't be dealt with peacefully. And now we're the people whose government kidnaps folks in the middle of the night and hides them away in a dark fortress somewhere and tortures them. Never mind whether or not that's actually true -- you have to admit that's the way it looks to a lot of people.