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Originally Posted by Botnst
Goofy name, "War on Terrorism." I understand why that phrase was chosen--to make the actual war more palatable.
The war is against messianic mediaevalists who control the planetary energy supply and who wish to bring their vision of Heaven-on-Earth to all of the dark lands of Satan. The dark lands of Satan would be "us."
In the long term the best way to defeat them is by encouraging them to embrace a new vision of humanity's relationship with God. One that respects individual liberty and education and rights of women, etc.
In the short term we kill any that are dangerous whenever we can.
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Nice in theory, but impossible in practice.
As an example, lets say we gather 1000 people who are just like you as much as possible. Same race, education, hair color, you name it. We try and make the group as homogenous as possible. If we put that group on an island together, they would find a way to segregate themselves into smaller groups, some of which would be at odds with other groups. Its a fact of ANIMAL (not only human) existence.
There will always be haves and have nots. There will always be inter-group resentment even if illogical. We cannot legislate that to change. And by the very definition of American culture, we can't. We embrace diversity, which means we are *not* the same and we are back to suare 1. Pure socialism is the closest way to get people on equal footing so they don't kill each other, and socialism is usually characterized as a whole ot of people in poverty-food fight!
And if the other side is willing to kill us for *whatever* reason, the only way is to exterminate them. Because poverty CULTURES have nothing to lose except life, and that has very little value to some of them. The richer cultures are the more peaceful ones because they have more to LOSE.