What is not morally defensible about hunting down and killing the people who attack you?
Hunting down and killing those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001 is perfectly morally and is something I would support unqualifiedly. The trouble is that's not what we're doing. Perhaps you haven't been listening to Mr. Bush lately, but in his inaugural, he said nothing about 9-11, terrorism, or al-Qaeda. His mission is now to spread democracy throughout the world, toppling one "tyrannical regime" after another. This is an immoral mission for the United States military, whose job it is to protect and secure our liberty.
Ahh, of course, it is all the fault of the "dirty Jews". How silly of me!
It has nothing to do with being silly, just ignorant. I said nothing about Jews and meant nothing about Jews. You might wish to read my actually comments before you reply next time. What I actually said was that we ought not fight wars that are in Israel's interests and not our own. The war in Iraq was not in our national-security interest, but it was in Israel's. This is undeniable. For the neoconservatives, what is good for Israel is good for the United States; for the rest of us, however, when our interests diverge from Israel's, we should stand up for our own.
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Date: 2005-02-07 09:52 pm (UTC)Hunting down and killing those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001 is perfectly morally and is something I would support unqualifiedly. The trouble is that's not what we're doing. Perhaps you haven't been listening to Mr. Bush lately, but in his inaugural, he said nothing about 9-11, terrorism, or al-Qaeda. His mission is now to spread democracy throughout the world, toppling one "tyrannical regime" after another. This is an immoral mission for the United States military, whose job it is to protect and secure our liberty.
Ahh, of course, it is all the fault of the "dirty Jews". How silly of me!
It has nothing to do with being silly, just ignorant. I said nothing about Jews and meant nothing about Jews. You might wish to read my actually comments before you reply next time. What I actually said was that we ought not fight wars that are in Israel's interests and not our own. The war in Iraq was not in our national-security interest, but it was in Israel's. This is undeniable. For the neoconservatives, what is good for Israel is good for the United States; for the rest of us, however, when our interests diverge from Israel's, we should stand up for our own.