| Council Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The great, dead heart of suburbia Gender:  Posts: 1,537 Country:  Level up: 3%, 194 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by Jefferson  1. Just because something doesn't appear to be working, does not mean that there wasn't a plan - which is your original allegation. And can you say - with a straight face - that the threat is worse? How many domestic terrorist attacks have we had in the last 5 years? How many have been foiled? Do you even know?
- And for the record, I think that even you know we are NOT fighting a Catholic/Protestant war here. We're fighting a war against radical Islamic terrorists. Apples & Oranges, friend.
2&3. Oh come on! I can buy an assault rifle today if I so choose! And guess what? I can buy all other kinds of explosive devises. The problem is NOT "access" and it is NOT "momentum". It's a mind-set, it's a religion, it's a generations-old paradigm. And yes, it IS a problem with ISLAM. Drop dead right on. Other religions have evolved. Islam has not.
4. The failure of the VietNam War was primarily that it became a "Living Room War". It's even worse now. And yes, the War in Iraq is being run primarily by opinion polls. THAT is why we have a party-change in Congress (probably a good thing), and that is why our current Congressional politicians are piling on the "anti-war" bandwagon. It's NOT about war. It's about politics! | 1. How many terrorist incidents have occurred overseas? On the other hand, how many occurred between 1978 and 2001? Something as big as 9/11 only happens once every few decades and only results from serious lapses in security. If the U.S. government wanted to justify it's position, it would release information on how their actions have decreased the incidence of plots. They have not for one reason: there has been an increase in the number of plots
2. The problem isn't accessibility to weapons. I never said that. I said that the easy access reflects a region where warfare is a part of life. And it is momentum. There must be a dozen cases of long-running feuds stemming from the theft of a goat in the Middle Ages. It's not the original incident, it's that people keep retaliating against each other, and it enters into a cycle of violence.
3. Agreed. Politicians are the cause of that. Military commanders urged Bush not to invade. Military commanders urged him not to escalate. Military commanders told him the situation could not be solved the way he wanted to do it. They know the ground. They know how to conduct battles. They're trained to understand the necessary tactics in winning, and nobody listened to them. They have nothing to gain, because they're appointed, not elected by the American people. "Every time I hear the phrase 'Christian nation' I run to my car and blast a Slayer album at full volume." - Me |