Re: Tancredo is a Pacifist Compared.....
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Felix -
Although I am ambivalent on the ethics of your position, it warms my heart to know that there are still people willing to do whatever seems necessary to survival. Carry on good sir.
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It's not a position of doing whatever necessary, because if it was determined that holding back was 'necessary' he and people like him wouldn't. His is a position of anger and revenge.
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America has always been overwhelmingly violent and brutal when angered. "Payback" is our middle name. Unfortunately, so is "blowback." The mess that is Iran today, and thus part of the havoc that is Iraq today, is directly attributable to our hubristic arrogance, so perfectly captured in the attitude of your post.
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Wrong. Its directly attributable to ridiculous rules of engagement and our lack of will to win.
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Do you mean the idea of having rules of engagement is ridiculous or the specifics in ours are ridiculous?
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the specifics
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