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Old 06-25-2007, 02:22 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Flint View Post
The 9/11 attacks were a stick to the hornet's nest, designed to get us to launch a knee-jerk Holy War.
They've gotten miles of propoganda out of this; we're reacting as if they have actual puppet strings attached to us.
Extremists will do things so that it becomes difficult for intelligent people to remain moderates. It is what Sharon did with his march to desecrate a mosque on Temple Mount; to create Intafada II. It is what the IRA did to promote so much unnecessary violence by all sides in N Ireland. It is what Chavez is doing in Venezuela to promote himself. It is what Hitler did to disparage the bourgeois and intelligencia. The resulting emotion makes intelligent thought difficult. We need only return to the Cellar of 2002 to see that among the many who insisted Saddam was a 'clear and present danger' when no facts existed. Logic was not where support for "Mission Accomplished" came from. That emotion is the extremist's objective.

Same bottom line point made using a completely different perspective.
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