akuma587 on 21 January 2009
The_vagabond7 said:
What's the point of victory over an enemy if you become just as morally reprehensible in the process? Nietzsche and all that shit. Yeah it sucks that there are people willing to walk into a crowded area and blow themselves up. But a world super power that is willing to detain anyone anywhere for any reason, deny them habeus corpus and torture them isn't really a whole lot better. Both will instill fear and hate in the population of the world. It's not enough to destroy terrorists, they have to be destroyed in such a way that doesn't leave the world more afraid of you afterwords. An ideological battle has to be won ideologically. And mock executions to force confessions isn't going to convince anyone that you're the good guy in this fight.
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