Reply #12: I think my post shows that I understand perfectly well how the cycle runs [View All]

[kcwayne]

If your goal is to have increased escalation of death and destruction, you act exactly as these terrorists and our right wing have done.

That is why I say they are morons, incapable of seeing their way clear to an end game in which daily death and destruction cease.

I haven't had discussions with Islamic terrorists, but I have had discussions with right wing fanatics in our country. Our fanatics will say they want peace and prosperity as the end goal, that the goal is not simply to engage in warfare. I suspect Islamic terrorists will say the same thing.

When you read the speeches of Osama Bin Laden, he is selling a vision of Islamic justice, security, and self determination for Muslims. Warfare is a necessary tool to achieve those results, but he is asking Muslims to sacrifice and kill the enemy so that one day, they will have vanquished us and then they can live in peace.

Of course he is selling a totalitarian oligarchy, and will never achieve his goal. His only "successes" will be the pitifully cowardly and barbaric acts that get their 15 minutes of fame, and in the end, each act will result in a thousand more Muslims dying, and the moronic call to exact retribution by committing another stupid act of murder.

And the same applies to the way we respond, as long as those responses are governed by the simple minded ideology of the right wing.