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Originally posted by Rodeo
It's not either "bomb em' to the stone age" or "kiss them until they are happy."
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But from their perspective, this is essentially the way they will perceive any action. They will reason that if we could "bomb em' to the stone age", we would. They don't understand mercy like we do; they see mercy as an attempt to cover an underlying weakness. "They must be offering peace because they know they can't win. If they could win, they would and then they wouldn't have to offer peace." By doing anything short of "bombing em' to the stone age", we feed the belief that we are playing games to hide unknown weaknesses. The way arabs fight each other is by killing the soldiers, their children, their parents, their grandparents, and their pet goldfish. The only kind of warfare they understand is winning by overwhelming, ruthless, and unforgiving force. If they see an enemy not doing this, they reason it is because they can't.