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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It wasn't that long ago that people were lynched in America, and we overcame that without being bombed. Why the deep need to deny the humanity of these people? Al Qaeda is a minority movement even in Saudi Arabia. It seems to me that talking about replicating Dresden is playing into their hands, but, hey, I'm up in the ivory tower with my head in my ass -- you clearly have a better idea.
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I don't think you're arguing that people engaged in lynching blacks were human, because they weren't. They're right up there with the Wahhabist lunatics. No talk with that sort of animal - he just needs to "go."
There's also an imporatnt distinction you're missing - the lynchers did not engage in their lynching under the country's accepted criminal code. The Wahhabists cite good ole' Allah, and their hysterically juvenile legal code derived from the Koran, as the basis for chopping off heads. Even in the most virulently racist bowels of the lynching belt, the lynchers did not lynch anyone with explicit state approval.
I have not advocated Dresdening SA. I have advocated Dresdening the collections of AQ in places like the provinces of Pakistan, where AQ is NOT a minority, but enjoys broad support from the populous.
You only play into their hands when you fight, come up short and walk away. We made some inroads when we laid on the gas and bombed the Afghan border back to the Stone age, but the campagin was about 250 square miles short of what was necessary. We should have crossed the border and blown the provinces into smythereens. And we should have done the same in the lawless provinces of yemen where AQ has the same camps.
