by Grifter » Wed 17 Jan 2007, 18:03:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grifter', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I') do see a certain amount of humor in people defending Iran. Its amusing.
Are they defending Iran? I'm not so sure. I personally wont defend them, but I don't want to go to another war. There are other ways to play it the long way.
We know the last war was a complete disaster, morally, tactically and financially. We were lied to then, why not this time?
Hope you find time to respond spec.
Look at it this way.
9/11. Everyone thinks at a minimum the government knew about it and did nothing. Then we have this
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/08/subwa ... index.htmlAnd many people complained because the government did too much.
Now we have Iran who has openly and repeatedly stated they want nothing less then the utter destruction of Isreal. They want to wipe them off the face of the Earth. And they are pursuing a nuclear program.
What do you think will happen? What are people going to say if and when Isreal is nuked? "The government knew and did nothing"? OR will they say "Gee, we shoulda saw it coming...."
Give you one guess.
I hear what you’re saying, and I know that there is a terrorist threat albeit played upon by big government to make us accept restrictions on our freedom to move about and engage in association with like minded people.
And what you said about 911, I think it might be the case but I also think it might not. I’ll probably never decide where I stand on that one, all I know is that I don’t like big government.
The article you linked to is
exactly why I don’t want us to try and do this the quick and (seemingly) easy way.
Misguided youngsters will have more reason to hate us. At the end of the day dropping bombs blows up people who really only want to go about their lives, provide for their families, eat as well as possible that sort of thing.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')EW YORK (AP) -- A Pakistani immigrant was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for devising an unsuccessful plot to blow up a busy Manhattan subway station as revenge for wartime abuses of Iraqis.
Why would a country nuke another which they know has nukes, and lots of them? MAD works. The soviets seemed just as crazy at the time of the Cuban crisis but we
they had nukes and MAD was avoided in the end. It was avoided because there was PROOF not INTELLIGENCE or whatever that means.
Trouble is the long way of doing this involves a bit of pain for us in order to starve
of funds. We would go into a recession but we would kind of recover to a slightly higher standard of living but probably lower than right now.
I will admit that I’m concerned about religious fanatics, but going down the path that seems to be being taken will increase the number of these backward fanatics and I believe will result in the complete destruction of liberty for many centuries. Hatred runs thick and lasts long.
I hope that don’t sound preachy because there are things I have agreed with you about in the past. Hope you’re doing well.