05-04-2011, 08:03 PM
kj wrote:
>>Is he suggesting that if the Allies had the opportunity to assassinate Hitler, they should not? HUH?!? Even without the benefit of hindsight, I would have to disagree with that on several points.
I don't get it either, but I think a fair summary of his point of view would be that u.s. violence in the middle east is counter-productive.
As far as killing OBL, I'm not sure exactly what the tangible pay-off is. Maybe it will prevent future attacks, but at the same time, he hasn't been real successful in the last 10yrs., so I don't know. And then there's the killing people over there spawns hundreds more terrorists mantra. kj.
fortunately the mideast is slowly attritioning the oppressive autocratic regimes - from whence the support for extremism thrives ( the brainwashed call this Bush's foreign policy failures as if repeating it often enough will make it so)