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ixion

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Fri Jan-20-06 10:17 AM
Response to Reply #13

17. I'm all for stopping the fighting.

But herein lies the problem with the so-called War on Terror. Just who is the 'them', in this case?

Let's say that we make a 'deal' with OBL. Who's to say that deal will stand for ALL members of ALL organizations?

How do you declare a truce with Terror? Where does Terror live? What does Terror's flag look like? Does Terror have an ambassador that we can contact to start to negotiate a truce?

I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to point out some flaws in the over-simplified premise that OBL, or Saddam or any one individual controls all the Terror in the world.

As long as the US pursues these ludicrous wars of abstraction, we will have nothing but war, because war is what is desired.

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Reply #17: I'm all for stopping the fighting. [View All]