Help me debate my Mom and sister - RP related

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I think your best bet for #2 is to keep asking them why we were attacked. If they want to play a cat and mouse game with these morons, they will always be able to get one thing through and there is no way to stop it. The only way to WIN the war is to change hearts and minds (or at least let them direct their hatred elsewhere).

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Seriously. I have never heard a good rebuttal to this argument - maybe one of the resident neocons could try.

The suggestion always seems to be that there's one cohesive group that we just just throw our military at and they'll deal with it - the "we'd rather fight them over there than over here" argument. The fallacy being that "they" can be dealt with in one place. Not to mention the fact that we're generating historic levels of hatred around the world for what we're doing - gee, that must be pacifying the terrorists. I hide the american side of my half english / half american accent when I go back to england now.