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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Take a step back from this and look at it from a psychological or philosophical point of view. All actions are the result of an accumulation of causes. People don't just wake up one day to become a suicide bomber... there's a reason why. Maybe they lost their parents, maybe they were put in a conservative school, maybe their own livelihood was threatened.
Whether we like it or not, the US contributed to those causes.
Said bomber is still responsible for the choice he made to become a suicide bomber. Since we cannot control his choice directly, and we find being blown up to be bad, then it may be in our best interest to determine and adjust our contribution to the "causes" in his life.
We can also look back and say, yeah, what we did may have influenced him, but our other options would have put us worse off.
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Even if a situation was handled somewhat poorly, do you think the response was justified?
If the response was above and beyond what was justified, can we really assume that other situations would not have led to the same unjustifiable response?
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So what's the point? This is EXACTLY what I'm getting at. None of your posts have addressed this issue at all - in fact, you seem content to punt it. That's not a discussion, that's go-nowhere proselytizing, isn't it?
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