These Al-Qaeda assholes are nothing at all like Nazis..it’s absurd to use that comparison. The whole problem really is not too dificult to solve: stop supporting Israel’s occupation of Palestine (Israel has over 150 nuclear warheads, I think they can defend themselves), stop interfereing in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.

Lastly..3000 people died on 9/11…how many innocent Muslims have we killed in response? Easily 100 times that number..

I suppose we should stop here and not clog Jonah’s blog with out politics. After all, he needs more space for Expos nostalgia and Simpsons references

This “handful” of Islamic radicals already killed, what, 3,000 American civilians? And if you live in an American city, do you want to take the chance that this “handful” of Islamic radicals wouldn’t use nuclear weapons, or any other type of weapon for that matter, to kill as many Americans as possible?

If a handful of maniacs seems perfectly willing to destroy your entire civilization, it seems appropriate that they dictate the foreign policy of the US.

Secondly, there is one very simple way to make these idiots lose whatever support they have: stop invading Muslim countries. Stop interfereing in the Middle East, end the occupation of Palestine by Israel. Let Afghanistan and Pakistan sort out their own problems. Use our vast military budget to help people around the globe and not to install bases.

I’m not sure where you are or where you have traveled, but I can assure you, more people on this globe are anti-American because of these pointless, criminal wars carried out but Nush & Obama. One billion + Muslims and you let a handful of maniacs dictate foreign policy..it’s insane and will only lead to more and more carnage.

Lastly..Obama is now officially a war criminal. 50,000+ more troops in Afghanistan..and they say they want to bring peace!

Anyone who wants to say the situation in Afghanistan isn’t comparable to the situation with Nazi Germany, I would just ask you to look at the goals of these members of radical Islam. They want to destroy Israel and all of Western civilization.

Again, unfortunately that’s the reality of the world full of selfish and power-hungry human beings. There is not an easy solution (like diplomacy) to certain problems, or sometimes it’s even more risky to not wage war than to wage war. As horrible as war is, sometimes not waging war is more horrible. And unfortunately no one has a crystal ball to know the future. So we have to go on what we do know, namely that a group of people seem to be willing to stop at nothing in an attempt to destroy Western civilization and Israel and anyone else who doesn’t believe in their brand of Islam.

Could it possibly hurt? Could it possibly be worse than what we’re doing now? How would we even know, since we’ve never tried it?

“One can be a leader in spreading freedom and also a leader in diplomacy and intelligent decision making. These two concepts needn’t be mutually exclusive.”

Isn’t it at least conceivable that the price of freedom is worth lives, unfortunately? I wish it weren’t the case but it seems like it may be. For instance, look at the thousands of Cubans who have risked their lives on shoddy, homemade rafts in order to gain more freedom.

I’m all for diplomacy and intelligent decision making, in fact I would prefer it. But can diplomacy and intelligent decision making work against someone who believes his god instructs and rewards him for blowing himself up in order to kill those who don’t share his beliefs?

Humans, in my view, are all naturally selfish and motivated by power. Our Constitution and ideals seem to protect our citizens from themselves as good as or better than most other countries. (That’s not to say our ideals are limited to our country; many other countries share our ideals.) So in order to keep human selfishness and motivation for power in check, countries like the U.S. must be aggressive in promoting their ideals. And because the U.S. has superior resources and technology and holds up these ideals, it is the country that unfortunately is obligated to take the lead in using force against those who will likely never accept the ideals the U.S. holds sacred.

That’s not to say the U.S. hasn’t made questionable decision regarding the use of their military. But the world is a complex place. Unfortunately it’s not so easy to take the chance that other humans will not be so motivated by selfishness and power that they threaten to destroy the entire world or at least threaten countries that share U.S. ideals. If the U.S. allows their ideals to be overtaken by other ideals that do not promote as much freedom (like Islamic extremism), the dominoes continue to fall and the threat to the U.S. becomes greater and greater.

And what specific data do you have that supports your statement about bringing freedom to more people than any other nation? Is there some comparative study done that demonstrates such a generalization, that defines its terms, that ranks degrees of freedom, that evaluates the cost of bringing such freedom?

Of course such statements are nonsense, bullshit and simplistic sloganeering, and belief does not trump thinking.

And, you have yet to counter any of our points about US imperial wars overseas..

Sorry, my belief in the constitution of the U.S. will not let my accept this.