The only way to win a war is to be as nasty as the enemy. — The Guns of Navarone
I can’t agree with this one. There has to be a limit to what you will do to advance your cause or defend your position. What the other side in a conflict does does not excuse bad behavior on our part. “They did it first” or “They started it” is for children, not for adults. Beware acting in the same way as your enemy. Eventually, you might find it hard to tell yourself from them.
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oldnfo
/ June 8, 2014Excellent point!
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Steve
/ June 9, 2014Yeah, I agree to a point….I mean this attitude would work if you are agin’ somebody that is sane and logical….but the USA isn’t agin’ a sane and logical enemy. One enemy, the progressives, are illogical and ONLY consider their feelings. The other enemy, the muslims are definitely insane.
So to respect them (or yourself) by dealing with them in your sane and logical way is actually insane and illogical.
Steve
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daddybear71
/ June 9, 2014It’s not about respecting them. It’s about being able to look at yourself and say “I’m still worth defending” or “I live my principles”.
Yes, you have to do things that are ugly, be it in political and ideological fights with the other side, or in a war. But there has to be a line beyond which you are betraying your beliefs and principles. Liberals use threats, innuendo, insults, and outright tantrums to advance their cause. Would we serve our cause by using those methods?
Terrorists of all stripes kill and maim innocent people in order to advance their cause. Yes, we cause deaths of civilians when we do an airstrike against terrorists, but we can at least make the figleaf excuse that the actual target was someone in a command structure or was at least a fighter in a terrorist cell who surrounded themselves with the innocent. But could we justify doing the same airstrike against a coffee house or school, with no legitimate political or military target, because the terrorists do it with car bombs and suicide vests?
I guess my point is that we are better than that, and in this respect, we are better than them.
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