Ad Populum...
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What makes you think other would think it is a good idea?
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You are appealing to popularity, you are saying because others think it would be a bad idea that therefor my premise is wrong.
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Go back to the Bible my child and let it clease you from your hateful ideas. Others who are nuts like the Islamist fundamentalists can rot in hell, but you need not stoop as low as them. If you do, then how are you any different?
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Let my just clearify my beliefs, perhaps I jumbled it up in all these posts.
1.) A just war is a war waged in self-defense, against the initiator of force.
2.) I believe that no weapons should be ruled out for moral reasons (for practicle reasons nuclear weapons and other WMD will be ruled out almost always). The weapons used should be determined by the Generals and respective military commanders.
3.) All deaths in a war are the moral responsibility of the initiator of force.
Therefor civilian casulties should be avoided but not at the cost of American Soldiers lives. No civilized nation goes out of it's way to kill civilians for the heck of it.
For example if there are a few civilians hovering around tanks in a major city and you bomb thoose tanks and the civilians die. The death is the result of the Initiator of Force which started the conflict which allowed these men to die.
4.) We have a right to force our form of Government because it is the most moral system of Government (hardly perfect, I know, but never the less the best yet) Ours was the only one in the history to treat the individual as a souverign entity worthy of individual rights.
5.) If we do not force our form of Government on them we should pull out of the Country (after we have completed our OPOBJ) under the pretext that if they initiate the use of force against us again we will come back and destroy them again.