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Originally Posted by futureSoldier
Years ago, before our current wars, I asked my dad why God would command this and teach this lesson. My father, who has a Doctor of Theology, explained that it is not to teach us to go and kill and be blindly violent, but rather to teach us that evil, in any form, cannot be negotiated with.
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Not only can “evil” be negotiated with, it can be an ally. In fact we would be a lot better off if we had retained some “evil” on our side in the past couple years.
“Evil” Syria was a great help after 9/11, their help saved American lives, and they were more then willing to get their hands dirty for us. Killing the Muslim Brothers is a national pastime in Evil Syria. If it was like a playground game of dodgeball and I was picking a team for a round of ‘Crush the Jihadi’, I would pick the Alawites in the first couple rounds. Right up there with Mattis, and some steely-eyed Mongols vintage 1258.
We could use an Evildoer dictator in Iraq right now. We should grab some evil Baathist that we have in lock-up, give him the keys to Maliki’s office, have em squash some uppity Shia, get him Sarkis Soghanalian’s Dictator-Deluxe Starter Package of Chilean cluster bombs and dual use CBW infrastructure, then have him go kick the Iranians in the teeth a couple times.
I swear the neoconservative “we don’t deal with evil” is more dangerous than liberal dogooderism.
“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.” – George Orwell