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In the meantime, the collateral damage convinces lots of other poeple that the US is just what they always said we were.
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Most of whom hated us to begin with.
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Are you hoping that perhaps we will actually find and kill every terrorist and 'win' the 'war'?
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Most of them, at least.
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Do you think that we will peer pressure people into not supporting terror by being terrifying ourselves? "Support terror and we'll overthrow your government, occupy you and kill lot of people!"
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The problem with your line of thinking is that our actions
are different and more moral than those of the terrorists.
Invading a "sovereign" nation. Doing some collateral damage. Ok, those are bad, but understandable.
But you know what else we did there, Max? We built hospitals and schools. We removed an oppressive dictator. The Iraqi economy is growing by leaps and bounds.
You can't reasonably compare U.S. military action to terrorism. Terrorists intentionally murder innocents. Terrorists threaten to burn hostages alive. Terrorists desire the proliferation of oppressive, theocratic governments. Terrorists also long for the overthrow of the Israeli state, failing the wholesale slaughter of every Jew living there.
We're not doing the wrong thing. We are not "unleashing chaos" or "ethnic hatred." Reasonable people can see that we're not "doing what the terrorists want us to do," and, those that do see it that way, as I said, probably hated us anyway.
Your argument basically goes something like this, Max:
"Terrorists want us to retaliate so that we look bad. We don't want to look bad, so I guess we should just take our lumps and prosecute the people who happen to fall into our nets."
Something tells me the American people won't really go for that strategy.