Re: Who wants to be the first to apologize.
rodbolt said:
john O had they actually been terrorist they would still reside in a compound with those that are known to be.
So what's the problem? We figured out they weren't active terrorists and let them go.
and ya still aint answeed it.
its a fairly simple question ,hypothetical of course and mostly required a yes or no.
actually it's an incredibly complex question whose answer depends almost entirely on the circumstances. "how hard would you howl if say great britian nabbed you,transported you to french guyana and held you for 4 years then gave ya 30 bucks a ticket and a sorry better luck next time?"
well it depends on the circumstances. Am I in a war zone? Am I in uniform, Am I fighting against them? Am I a member of a group whose sworn purpose in life is to see them destroyed? All of these have to be accounted for. That's why I tried to answer the way I did. It's not black and white.
Which is why civilians should always stay out of war zones or areas declared hazardous by the State Department. People who travel into say palestinian areas and get nabbed are pretty much getting exactly what they asked for. Don't go into the lion's den unless you're there to kill the lion or get killed by it.
I dont recall making any mention of you being a terrorist,in uniform or at war with the british. were di ya come out of right field with that ?
These are the underlying issues with your question that must be resolved before the question can be answered. Where was I. What was I doing, what other circumstances exist. See above.
just as you have no reason to fight the british most the 2500 or so that spent almost 4 years in detention were not fighting either.
they were trying to work and feed their family's.
or is it the entire arab world that we are fighting and is fighting us?
Actually they do have a reason to fight against us. Their religion commands it. The question is whether or not they were doing so at the time and whether they know anything about others who were doing so.
We are fighting not just the arab world, but the entire moslem one. They've been fighting us for years. We just started fighting back.
as far as Islam being the enemy your misguided.
read the koran, read the hadith, read the history of the twentieth century. If you have any intelligence and any honesty at all you'll come to the conclusion that islam is the enemy. They are commanded by their religion to kill us (or forcibly convert us or enslave us which is all the same to me). They made themselves the enemy.
while I fear the radical fringe islamists I hold the same fear of fundamental babtists and a few other christian groups.
the difference is that Southern baptists et al are not commanded by their religion to kill you. They may consider you a heathen and want nothing to do with you, they may evangelize you and leave tracts on your door, but they will also leave your head on your shoulders. The moslems are all to happy to behead you if you don't convert. They are COMMANDED to do so.
Islam is the enemy and the war ends with the death of the last moslem. (or the death of the last non-moslem but I chosoe to believe we'll wake up enough before it gets to that point)
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