In what possible sense are Hitler’s Germany and Osama Bin Laden’s bunch of criminals in any way comparable?

I don’t ask for much, digbydolben, just an all powerful mega-state run by my tribe that will keep me safe from all evil and give me the proper thoughts and narratives so that I can go to sleep each night comforted that my endless state of fear has a legitimate basis.

I never get this International Policing and treat this as some legal thing. How are the FBI and Interpol going to to go into Somalia and Pakistan and Afghanistan and other places and slap the cuffs on these guys.

In situations where the assistance of the military is needed (such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and so on) then they assist law enforcement with bringing criminals to justice – but it needs to be law enforcement in the lead.

Franklin also said that folks who valued “security” more than “their freedom” “deserved NEITHER.”

In writing what he has written Matt Talbot shows himself to be a genuine heir to his ancestors’ convictions, while you show yourself to be the appropriately craven subject of a totalitarian system.

Well I think in many regards it has. It is not a either or here. It is amilitary and Law enforecemt action. It also involves foreign aid and also tries to engage more moderate regimes that are in Islamic in focus.

In fact besides of the Humantarian reasons one reason the Bush administrations was spending so much time as to their Africa policy was because of the recognition that instability caused by aids, hunger, and other issues caused a vacummn where there terroist could operate and assume power.

So I think this war has been fought on many fronts and not just by the military

This is not the Buhs War on Terror and it’s even not the now Obama war on terror. It is the United States War on Terror. I see few elected Democrats that asking that the Drone attacks in Pakistan stop or that American Special forces and other operations stop.

I never get this International Policing and treat this as some legal thing. How are the FBI and Interpol going to to go into Somollia and Pakistand and Afghanistan and other places and slap the cuffs on these guys.

Hitler was in many ways a criminal too. However we did not give the job of getting rid of him to J Edgar Hoover.

When you trip and fall and break your nose, you don’t declare war on the sidewalk and bust it up with a jackhammer. But if someone trips you and you bruise your little toe, and he just laughs at you and makes faces and pushes you a little again . . . you go nuts.

There’s something about it being ‘personal’ that makes us more upset about the evil that we suffer.

I came across an interesting tidbit in a book about the Crusades by Zoe Oldenburg today. On the first crusade, Muslims desecrated crosses/crucifixes in mocking, obscene etc ways. This greatly incensed and motivated the Crusaders. A millennium later, the situation is reversed. The constant is that there are religious extremists on both sides then and now. Mormons dreaming of converting Iraq, evangelicals embracing Israel hoping Jesus will come back (imagine a president Palin)…

In a fight between the American system and radical Islam there really shouldn’t be a winner.