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originally posted by: JourneymanWelder
I cant believe it but this one thing he said really got me thinking, terrorists dont care about collateral damage so why should we?
Lets make their home a crater and see how many more times they try to attack the west after that.
Hell Im trying to get into the army too so I can take a few of them out my self, Im willing to die for my country if it means I can take a few of those bastards out with me. Anyone else agree?
originally posted by: JourneymanWelder
I cant believe it but this one thing he said really got me thinking, terrorists dont care about collateral damage so why should we?
Lets make their home a crater and see how many more times they try to attack the west after that.
Hell Im trying to get into the army too so I can take a few of them out my self, Im willing to die for my country if it means I can take a few of those bastards out with me. Anyone else agree?
make everyone who is over 18 and unemployed enlist for a few years and learn how to be a man.
I cant believe it but this one thing he said really got me thinking, terrorists dont care about collateral damage so why should we?
Lets make their home a crater and see how many more times they try to attack the west after that.
Hell Im trying to get into the army too so I can take a few of them out my self, Im willing to die for my country if it means I can take a few of those bastards out with me.
I'm tired of Obama pussyfooting around. Let call an ace an ace and a spade a spade. Islamic baby killers are Muslins. If Islam is peaceful let them stop this murdering internally, on their own, or get the hell out of the way.
I see no end to this unless we get tuff. We must see that there is no place to hide, no safe zone, and any country providing aid and comfort to the enemy becomes an enemy and can expect a high degree of collateral damage.
Call it the twenty-first century crusades
No rewards in paradise for the terrorist blown to hell with a pig bomb.
originally posted by: gladtobehere
a reply to: JourneymanWelder
Actually we are and have been "bombing the hell out of them".
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have been leveled while even more nations are constantly being drone bombed.
In just Syria, 500,000 have been killed and millions displaced.
In 2015 alone, we dropped at-least 23,000 bombs.
As a matter of fact, we've dropped so many bombs, we're running out.
Why stop now?
Theres only a couple countries left until theyre all dust.
Iraq:
Libya:
Syria:
originally posted by: Tjoran
originally posted by: nullafides
originally posted by: Tjoran
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: JourneymanWelder
Because we should strive to be better than terrorist? And it is a war crime to do what he wants.
Too many people obsessed with rules and regulations. Ethics and morals get in the way of progress. Could be my inner psychotic speaking but, if you want to win you break the rules.
Although I agree, I cannot help but think the word win is inappropriate. In my humble opinion, survival is the optimal choice of verbiage.
Replace win with what ever you would like. I chose it because it can mean "we win at survival" or "we win at x". any way, just a word
originally posted by: nullafides
originally posted by: Tjoran
originally posted by: nullafides
originally posted by: Tjoran
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: JourneymanWelder
Because we should strive to be better than terrorist? And it is a war crime to do what he wants.
Too many people obsessed with rules and regulations. Ethics and morals get in the way of progress. Could be my inner psychotic speaking but, if you want to win you break the rules.
Although I agree, I cannot help but think the word win is inappropriate. In my humble opinion, survival is the optimal choice of verbiage.
Replace win with what ever you would like. I chose it because it can mean "we win at survival" or "we win at x". any way, just a word
Words are often not as clear cut as one might like. Intent and stance are just as conveyed as meaning with any single word.
To win, is often associated with a game. Something trivial. Something done for entertainment, or relaxation.
To survive, is not. It is about as clear cut as you can get. Survival is all or nothing.
Choice of the word winning or survival speaks to the gravity with which you regard the topic at hand.
I would never go out of my way to harm you without being provoked by a genuine effort on your part to me or mine genuine risk. Everything up until that point in time is fun. Things can be "won", or "lost" without real consequence.
But, cross that line.....and there is no choice but to escalate the situation to one of survival. My survival, or yours. It is an absolute.
There are no shades of grey in absolute. Only black and white. 1 and 0.
originally posted by: nullafides
a reply to: one4all
Actually, no, you cannot bomb an idea.
You cannot cut it, dismember it, cause it to bleed, or annihilate it. It is well beyond the physical.
At best, you can kill those who are currently in possession of the idea. Be prepared to kill them, and everyone that ever knew them. Anyone who knew what they stood for. Anyone who might ever come across the same idea and possibly embody it. To eradicate any possible vector that idea might possibly escape to.
In this world, in this point of discussion, the only certainty is that the idea might just jump the airgap.
Even if you kill each and every person that the idea ever came into contact with, destroy every written reference, obliterate all memory of what lead to the origin of that idea....
The very act of "bombing" that idea alone is cause for the idea to become weaponized. To explode. To emit shrapnel.
If the fact that I am using the metaphor of a bomb is upsetting to you....hard to work with...then use any other metaphor you care to use. In the end, the result is the same.
A far wiser man than I put it...rather succinctly. I referenced these words last night. And they are still apropos.................. germane.
All this time we're burning like bonfires in the dark
A billion other blazes are shooting off their sparks
Every spark a drifting ember of desire
To fall upon the earth and spark another fire