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Entry: Killing Women and Children First Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/killing_women_and_children_first#34296 Post contents: Senor Doug, "Unlike Syria, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, the US is purportedly a peaceful commercial republic. I don’t want to live under a brutal, ruthless dictatorship even if you do." How we treat those abroad need not reflect how we treat those at home. I do not subscribe to a universal moral code. Do you? “Militant Islam is a threat only insofar as we stick our noses in over there, and allow them entry over here. We are vulnerable only because of our lack of will to maintain a traditionalist, majority-Anglo nation, not because we get squeamish over massacring civilians." I strongly agree that diversity has increased our vulnerability. But easily penetrable borders, ships armed with missiles and other such dangers would continue to threaten us even if we were a homogeneous people. Our oceans are no longer protection against an enemy whose expansionist ideology makes them want to attack us for reasons far beyond the claim that they hate us because we are sticking our noses in over there. “And do you actually believe ruthless carpet-bombing would solve the problem?” It would. Yes. If we had the fortitude to carry it all the way through. But I would only support such a policy as a last resort. I think tactical bombing would be more fitting. For instance, an immediate and overwhelming September 12th retaliatory strike in Afghanistan would have been far more effective than waiting three weeks to send in the Special Forces, Afghan mercenaries and remote control drones. “Put the shoe on the other foot and imagine the Saudi Arabian Army occupying your town and ordering in the gunships.” Put the shoe on the other foot indeed. Imagine nineteen American hijackers flew planes into the center of Mecca and destroy the Kaaba. How would they react? Sent at: 2008 12 01