Quote Originally Posted by juroara View Post
I think you're the one who's out of touch with reality.
No, actually I embrace rational, realistic thinking - not feel-good, "let's coddle those who actively seek our complete and utter destruction" lollipop dreams.

Kind words doesn't = love. Love isn't just words, pretty cards or holding hands. Love is action that benefits both parties.
I agree with that. But we (as a nation) cannot afford to make the mistake of thinking that evil can be soothed just because WE think it should be able to be.

There is always a loving action that can be done to solve a critical situation,
True. But, unfortunately, sometimes tough love is in order. Why do you think so many of today's youth are in a state where they're shooting up their schools and committing other acts were once the stuff of fiction? I'll tell you why: We've grown so damn afraid of tough love (you know, the kind of love that actually works) that we try to appease our way out of every uncomfortable situation. Well, you see how well that's been working for us.

but it's hard to even consider or think about if you are in a hateful state of mind.
Call me hateful all you want. The fact is that I understand the difference between in-vain pleasantries and realistic action.

Love isn't out of touch with reality. Reality is out of touch with love.
Poetic, but irrelevant.

It is beneficial for both the terrorists, AND ourselves that we destroy the root of terrorism.
True. But, in the meantime, we must deal with the problem at hand and quit trying to go through life with blinders on, thinking that if only we are nice enough then we'll receive the same in kind. They don't want us to be nice; they want us dead. You can't reason with that no matter how hard to try and no matter how many times you blow kisses at them.

Let me repeat that most important point: They don't want to peacefully coexist. They want us dead.

We can't however do this if we have the mentality that terrorists are 'evil', thus we destroy the terrorists and not terrorism.
You see, that's the thing that really peeves me about all this lovey-dovey politically correct crap. When you are too damned afraid to identify the enemy you are doomed to fall by their hand. I call a spade a spade. Until you have the courage to stand up and identify evil as evil you stand zero chance of defeating them. They damn sure have no problem calling us "evil", "the devil", and any other hateful term they can spew forth.

Yet, are we the one's committing random acts of blowing up innocents? Are we the ones actively trying to bring about the return of the 12th Ahmad? Are we the one's on an active journey to hasten the biblical "end times"? The answer: NO, we are not the ones doing these EVIL acts. So, until you can justify their acts of evil you have not a leg to stand on to claim they they are anything other pure evil.

And remember, they are doing this crap all over the world, not just in America. So, what exactly has the rest of the world done to make enemies with them? Huh? Please teach me, oh wise one. It's a matter of deeply-held ideology. It doesn't have anything to do with us "being big fat meanies".

If you somehow find the absurd rationale to justify their behaviour then please - oh pleeeease - tell me exactly how you define evil. If genocide isn't evil then what the hell is? If intending to exterminate everyone who thinks and believes differently from yourself isn't evil then what the hell is? If raising your children to believe that every non-Muslim (especially Jews) is "swine" and should be killed by your sword isn't evil then what the hell is? If preaching that "honor" is killing yourself for the sole purpose of murdering as many innocents as possible isn't evil then what the hell is? If the ideology that the greatest thing one could do for their god is to murder others simply because they believe differently isn't evil then what the hell is? I could go on and on.

And what I find even more absurd - and frankly, disgusting - is how some of you are going out of your way to defend evil, instead of standing up for good. Very disappointing, to say the least.

Blah-blah....Maybe some are genuinely born 'evil', but they are more likely to be the leaders and not the sheep.
If you perpetrate and embrace evil you are evil. There is no gray area.

It is necessary for the government to have the peoples best interests in mind. That means protecting us, and protecting us from attacks.
And what do you think they are trying to do? The way to protect is to confront the problem. Hope and ignoring the problem doesn't get the job done.

But how can it protect us from future terrorists in this area if we don't prevent that from happening?
That's the age-old question. But I can tell you what won't work. What won't work is to continue pretending we can talk our way into a friendship with evil. I wonder how you would have liked to handle Hitler... You'd want to sit down to a nice glass of tea and exchange love letters and fishing stories. "I caught one this big!" Sad, sad indeed.