| Rath said: So executing these prisoners isn't going to fuck the entire Islamic world off and lead to even more Islamic attacks on the United States in vengeance? You would execute less than a hundred terrorists and create many thousands. You would also fuck off the entire west lose all credibility on human rights and cause renewed violence in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Luckily you have a government which is nowhere near as foolish as you. |
I understand why you think that way. But what you don't understand is that Islamic millitants don't think like you and I. What we consider justice or mercy they consider a sign of weakness and an invitation for more attacks. Their goal is to start a war. That is what the terrorists want and that is why you can't negotiate a peaceful settlement with them. They DO NOT want peace. A united pan-Arabian super power ruled by fundementalist Islamics bent on spreading Islam through war is what they want. Much like Hitler used the Jews as a scape goat as a rallying point, the terrorists are using Israel and western culture for the same purpose.
The only way to deal with the terrorists is to mercilessy stomp them out. Anything else is a sign of weakness and invites more attacks becuase they do not think like we do. Europe and the liberals in general have gotten so wrapped up in the absoloutism of human rights that they are unable to deal with the problem. What we consider sacred human rights they find as a laughable source of weakness they are willing to exploit. That's why they have no problem using depressed suicidal teens as suicide bombers. What we consider horrifying they consider a great tactic.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
