Quote:I answered that badly.


Yeah that's fair enough, not going to lie and say I wouldn't want us to retaliate after that.


Problem is 1) Which country organised the attacks? 2) Why are you still there in 2017? Has the debt been paid yet? The US have killed over 1,000 civilians so far, do more have to be killed until it equals the lives lost of the US? What's the end game?

1. That really is incidental. Many countries cultivate these groups and actions. They are equally responsible for not putting a stop to it themselves.

2. The US is still there because the terrorists are still there. If the countries took handle on this problem themselves, the US would be the first to leave them all alone.

3. WW2 history shows that the quickest way to stop an aggressor is to overwhelm them with power. Did many civilians die in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Of course. How many MORE would have died had those actions not been taken? Nobody will ever know, but common sense suggests that that overwhelming action put a quick, definitive end to the conflict.

4. The end game is the same that you and I both want for the world. Peace. There can be no peace until these countries start self policing and eliminating terrorism. There is ZERO excuse for terrorism.

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