foiled terrorist plot?

[spazz]

Genocide is a process, not a single action. Although all genocide begins with a single action. If, every time there is a terrorist attack, you destroy an entire city of several hundred thousand people simply because they have the same color skin as the terrorists, you are undoubtedly committing mass murder based on race. Do it often enough, and you will eventually wipe out the entire race.

I don't see the logic in bombing a city full of innocent people because somebody else bombed a city full of our innocent people. Why is one action just and the other unjust?

If we bomb innocent people to try to force the terrorists to meet OUR demands (ie, stop bombing us), then how are we any different from the terrorists themselves. After all, they bomb innocent people to try to force us to meet THEIR demands.

Take out the terrorists for sure. I'm absolutely for that. If we know where they are, drop a missile on their evil asses. But all this talk of wiping out entire cities full of innocent Arab men, women, and children in retaliation for the death of innocent American men, women, and children is outrageous. It is simply meeting terrorism with terrorism. As I said before, we are better than that.

At least, I'd like to think that we are,
Snazzlefrag

No, I said if they bomb a building we bomb a city. If they destroy a city, we destroy a country. We make terrorism so unthinkable that the terrorist will not kill our civilians because they will realize the price they pay for doing it. They are simply exploiting us because of the liberal media. They know we could never catch them because we would be crucified by the media for the civilians we kill. Genocide is a process, which could never happen because we would have to kill every Arab in the world, even our own trusted citizens. That is the kind of radical bullshit that the media plays off of.

The only difference between terrorist and countries is countries actually have the balls to define themselves. But most of the Middle Eastern countries are ran by terrorists or fundamentalist religious zealots.

As for the action to be just, of course it is not. But it would be for the greater good of our innocent people. I do not like seeing innocent people die either. But people are driven by incentives, the only reason terrorists continue to hide with innocent people and the innocent people allowing it is because they know we would never blow them up because of the civilian causalities. But if we were to show them that we do not care and we are willing to blow up an entire city for the greater good, then they would obviously get rid of the terrorists themselves. It would be either that or get blown up every other week. This would also give the terrorists less incentive to actually commit terrorist acts.