There's only one fact that really matters in the final analysis: due to Bush/Cheney we haven't had another 9/11 on American soil. Love them or hate them, they've done their job in protecting the citizens of the United States. If an entity makes it his sworn duty to kill you, you do what is neccessary to stop him. Trample some civil liberties? Fine, if it stops him. Assassinate a leader/terrorist? Fine, it it stops him. Dribble water on a terrorists nose? Fine, if it prevents another attack. Peel him like a potato if you have to. Like it or not, we live in a Darwinian world. Maybe that's what terroristic violence is in some way: natural selection acting to remove a maladaptive trait such as hugging the person who's going to kill you in any event. Self recrimination, heart-on-your-shoulder liberalist hand-wringing wouldn't have beaten Hitler in WWII, and it won't defeat terrorism today. You're not making archane mathematical computations in quantum physics: be soft, you die; be firm, you live. Not a lot of gray area there. Unless you think victory is thinking, "Wow, I'm sure a concientious victim..." as the plane hits the tower or the bomb goes off and the light in your head winks out. Well, you won't be cluttering up the gene pool anymore.









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