Do some people not understand this?

Question

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. They will only demand more and more from you until they demand something you cannot give, then you are at war anyway. These people have no honor and do not respect the rules of war and open combat. They are cowards that hide amongst civilians and use them as sheilds in order to carry out nefarious deeds. They need to be wiped out because whether you negotiate with them or not, given the oppurtunity they would murder you and everyone else on this site. Do not forget that. I certainly wont therefore I will support my country and any other country fighting them in any way I can. G.W.B. sign me up, I will gladly protect this great nation and the people in it. Does anyone else agree? Disagree? Let me hear all angles.

Lab Rat, I do not disagree with you. These people need to be educated on proper ways of living, educated on peace if you will. It is the people spreading hate and violence with their fanatic beliefs we need to get rid of.

Be careful mike, those patriots are our forefathers and you dishonor them by comparing them to the terrorists we are fighting now

Also, I am not Democrat or Republican, I think political parties are keeping our nation from true greatness by not allowing a "real person" into the presidency. I simply am loyal to my country and therefore the president.

Answer 1

Israel does everything reasonable to minimize civilian casualties, including dropping leaflets warning residents to get out of areas about to be bombed.

Hezbollah and Hamas want to MAXIMIZE civilian casualties on both sides. (Hey, how come noone in Israel ever received a warning leaflet from the Hezbollah?)

And once you decide to hide missiles in your house for one of these Jihad cults, you give up your status as a "civilian".

Answer 2

Yeah - A totally reasonable argument, because Gandhi and Mandela should never have been negotiated with. Both considered terrorists by the British and South African governments respectively. You make these sweeping statements without giving it a great deal of thought. Evidently, terrorism in the US is a new thing and it takes a while to get used to. I think what you really meant to say was ' the nasty terrorists that I don't agree with can't be negotiated with'. I guess you should also consider the recent past when your government and people were not adversed to funding some terrorist groups if it suited your purpose (various anti-government groups in Central America, IRA in N. Ireland and Saddam to name a few). In my view the most hypocritical one of these would have been the IRA - weren't the US supposed to be an ally of the UK, but it was and still is acceptabe to raise funds to help murder British troops. Terrorism is a strange thing when some of it you can justify whilst being appalled by others. Nothing is ever black and white, we mostly live in a grey world.

Answer 3

What a sea-change there has been in the Republican Party over the past 50 years. On Nov. 8, 1954, Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Unfortunately that small number of (not-so) stupid people not only took over the Republican Party but they drove the whole political landscape in the United States well to the Right. Teddy Roosevelt was the greatest Republican President other than Lincoln (who was not a Republican even in the TR mold). The Trust Buster railed against "the malefactors of great wealth;" made environmental conservation a major focus of his Presidency; was the first President to invite an African-American leader, Booker T. Washington, to meet with him in the White House; put national health insurance onto his Bull Moose Party platform when he ran for President as an independent in 1912. He would actually have a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination for President today; that is if the DLC had anything to say about it.

Beginning with Goldwater, Eisenhower's "oil millionaires" moved in to the center of the party, and married right-wing politics to their cause, with great electoral success: Nixon and the racist "Southern Strategy" in 1968, Reagan and the bows to both racism and the Christian Right in 1980, this Bush's total embrace of the Christian Right in 2000. But still, outwardly the Republican Party has managed to look somehow "normal," in the American tradition, and certainly gentlemanly and ladylike for the most part, although George W. and Dick C. have been starting to wear the veneer off that one.
You who call your selves republicans have nearly brought this country ti its knees financially..and still are so smug or blind about it.

Answer 4

I agree with most. However to say that we will fight until ALL terrorists are gone is something that is unrealistic. It would mean perpetual war forever. I guess that there always is anyway... I don't know the answer, but I think that sending more people to die in a war that will go on forever is not great (my brother is a Marine that has served in Iraq). Maybe specialized squads to take on verified threats is more realistic. I just feel strongly that we need to use our intelligence more than just having thousands of our people over there as targets. Perhaps if we band together better with other countries we can have a more complete picture of what is going on and how to combat it.?

Answer 5

It is my understanding that Kidnapping is an accepted form of negotiation in the Middle East. You kidnap someone from me, I do the same to you, and then we negotiate, release our captives and repeat.

Make no mistake, this is ultimately a religious war, started thousands of years ago, that has taken several breaks throughout the centuries. The people fighting it are different, the land that is being fought over has changed names, but the places are still the same.

More people have died in the name of religion that for any other reason, disease or other. Since there were two people to believe different things, there has been fighting...

Why are we not trying to cure religion? Cancer, AIDS, Flu, plague... They haven't killed as many people as religion.

Answer 6

In the eyes of King George III, our founding fathers were terrorists and if caught they would be imprisoned and killed. It's not comparing them to today's terrorists, it's just stating facts. And no you don't negotiate, you treat them like the common criminals they are. Take Timothy McVeigh, until 9/11 he orchestrated the worst terror attack in this country. He had read the Turner Diaries and thought if he blew up the Federal Building, Clinton would over react and the populace would rise up against him. Except Clinton didn't overreact, he caught, tried and executed McVeigh. Italy did the same with the Red Brigade and Germany with the Bader Minoff Gang. They are criminals,mass murders and you don't overreact! It just serves as a recruiting for their cause. I love my country, but I fear this administration. And this administration uses fear to gain power!

Answer 7

Sign right up! Go over to Iraq (the country that had nothing to do with 9/11) and fight a civil war within a country that we started because apparently somebody in the White House misspelled Iran (the country that actually has W.M.D.'s) and G.W.B. either did not know or care and went on with his preemptive strike (a first in American history) to invade a country that had nothing to do with Bin Laden and his terrorist network, and posed no threat to America. Yea, go fight against terrorism.....uh, I mean evil.......yea that's it.....evil......

Answer 8

Yes, I strongly support blowing Islamo-fascism off the planet. I been saying this before that peace to the lslamic radicals is a world of Islam and they have Europe by the balls. The ones who want to take, reason, and appease them are the crazy "peace for at no cost" group, even when the terrorist have them and their families on the ground kissing their feet.

Answer 9

allthough i tend to agree with you you have to remember that in war there are no rules, in history those that were once considered terrorists against england are now heros and patriots. to expect a smaller ill equipted enemy to fight fair, in the open is just asking for it, throw in a fanatic religon and a catalyst such as our father son combo of leaders who obviously are using the us army for personel reasons and the chances are your gonna get some terrorism

Answer 10

Are you going to exterminate them like the Nazi's tried to do? You will fail, you can't kill them all. The only way to win is to make them see your way of life as better than theirs and give them a chance to live that life and they won't want to blow themselves up.

War is a fools answer because they can't think of an answer so they start killing.

Answer 11

we can try peace. It worked in the 60's (for a few minutes). I think you rock with your patriotism, but GWB is too focused on oil and lies outright to his country, though when it comes to terrorists, i certainly would like to kick the **** out of osama and the shitty *** hezbollah