Muslim Riots

[spence]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

How does one negotiate with someone whose sole aim in life is to kill you?

Don't get me wrong, I'll all for shooting them.

But there are really very few people so consumed with killing, it's the ones on the fence or who dabble in killing you have to worry about in the long run.

-spence

[Pete_G]

Obviously no one is implying we start with a sit down with Al Queda. You start by seeing eye to eye with people you can see eye to eye with, THEN you put additional pressure on those you don't. Right now almost nobody likes us, and that's a BIG problem when it comes to putting leverage on rouge groups or nations. Military action is always kept in the back pocket ready to go, you just don't go swinging around your saber as aggressively as we do now. You rattle the saber, instead of pointing it in someone's face, especially since it's tough to find the exact people you're supposed to be pointing it at in the case of terrorists.

I'm not about sympathy, I'm about protecting the homefront through any means possible.

Unilateral pre-emptive retaliation and regime change don't seem to be working, maybe it's time to try something different. Seriously, what did regime change in Iraq do for me? A couple of my friends are dead, it cost me a lot of money to bomb stuff, gas prices are higher then ever, terrorists are even more inspired to kill me, and the Middle East overall is probably more unstable then it was before the war. What was that war all about anyway?

[Pete_G]

Speaking of the war, we now all know there were no WMD in Iraq at the start of the war. Because of that, it's pretty safe to say the sanctions and diplomacy prior to the war worked.