Proof that 'Shoot-to-Kill' works!

July 7: 52 people murdered by terrorists in England. July 21: 4 bombers try another massive attack. Police announce a shoot-to-kill policy. July 22: A Brazilian man is shot running from police. Early on July 28: Ex-IRA bomber warns British shoot-to-kill policy only provokes terror." Later on July 28: IRA Ending Longtime 'Armed Campaign'.

On supporting an unjust war.

No one should support an unjust, immoral war. If America was fighting, what John Kerry called, “a war at the wrong time, in the wrong place”, I would expect every decent American not to fight. I would tell my friends (who are in the army) that what they are doing is wrong, and that they need to resist orders to go and fight. I’d instruct them to say, "I'm sorry, it's immoral, and I can't do it." A soldier is a person who is issued a gun and told to kill people. If someone gave me a gun and told me to kill someone.... and it was the wrong thing to do, I would refuse to do something immoral. That would be the case even if my life was at steak. I recently spoke to an Israeli friend whose unit will attempt to expel 8000 people out of their homes. When I advised him to leave his base and join the settlers, his response was "I have to follow orders". Deja Vu! Sound familiar? Yep, you guessed it! It was Adolf Eichman who said, "It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders". I kindly informed my friend that even Eichman later saw the error in just following orders, as he wrote: "Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think." Thankfully my friend is now actively engaged in the thinking process. He has transfered to another unit, this one full of people who won't have to tell their children and grand children that they were just following orders. This leads me to conclude that it is IMPOSSIBLE to logically be "against a war, but support the soldiers" (who are waging the war). We must stand for righteousness and destroy evil. That is true even if the people we like (our family/ friends/ countrymen) are perpetrating evil. One of the hardest things you can do is be ideologically opposed to the people you love and care about. That is why I greatly respect anti-war protesters who hope that American soldiers killed. They are standing bravely, against the overwhelming majority of Americans that support the war in Iraq. Out of the millions opposed to the war, few have enough courage and conviction, and even less are rational enough, to carry their beliefs to the logical conclusions. Pictures from: http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/ Quotes from: http://www.fpp.co.uk/Auschwitz/Eichmann/OOF130899.html

I knew I was intelligent..... now I know why!!

I thought it was because I read books and watch Jeopardy, but maybe I was born a natual genius?

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