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Date Posted: 07:41:46 01/12/08 Sat
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: Bill's wife losing again
In reply to: SleepingHare 's message, "Re: Bill's wife losing again" on 23:44:47 01/11/08 Fri

>Gandhi was fighting modern Britain. Change that with
>the Mongol horde and you can guess the outcome. Public
>opinion only matters in democratic countries with a
>modern western view of justice. That describes less
>than half the planet.
>
>I am all for avoiding unnecessary wars, but I do
>believe sometimes you need to fight. I resent
>pacifists for being free riders in those situations.
>While I never saw the point of the war in Iraq I do
>think Afghanistan was fully justified and I did note
>the pacifist response to it.

I supported the Afghanistan war, and all of the liberals I know did too. I'd venture to say that most liberals are able to make the distinction between necessary and unnecessary wars. And the wars that have been protested most heavily in recent years (Iraq and Vietnam) wouldn't have affected our freedoms one bit if we hadn't fought them. When we fight wars unnecessarily, people around the world see us as a tyrant, and they use us as a rallying point to advance terrorist agendas, and we become a greater target for attacks. It has to stop.

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