<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Justin wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>>More murderous = murders more people. Don't be obtuse.</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>To me, "murderous" connotes an element of malice.  There's no denying that the number of casualties directly attributable to US foreign policy far exceeds anything Al Qaeda could have reasonably hoped to reach.  However, I don't think that provides grounds enough for proclaiming that the US must not employ military action of any sort in their attempts to minimize the threat posed by Al Qaeda.    </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>>I didn't know, but I might have surmised. Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not quite my view.  Before the war in Afghanistan, I thought doing nothing might well be the best course of action (perhaps I'll end up believing that again in retrospect).  Explain to me just how a police investigation would've incapacitated one of the world's largest international terrorist organizations?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>