Then what you're talking about is a political war, not a religious one. I
objected to your use of the concept of a Christian Jihad for exactly the
reasons you've cited. Obviously that's not really what you meant.
> Try this on for size. The Muslims who attacked us and have been attacking
> us have been doing so in the name of Jihad. Those who lose their lives in
> this Holy War are supposed to end up in paradise with Allah. In their
> concept of Jihad every American citizen be he Jew, Christian, California
> Vegetable Worshiper, what have you is a legitimate target. This is not
> politics, but perverted religion. Even the Japanese, in their sneak attack
> on Pearl Harbor, concentrated on military targets not civilians. Yet in the
> end, we dropped two nukes on them to save American lives. If we let the
> current terrorists get away with it we open the door to making any American
> anywhere in the world a target. If we let the foreign governments who have
> aided them to go unpunished we insure that this will keep on happening. The
> Christian answer just doesn't work. Dead people can't turn the other cheek.
> That leaves only the political solution. We could take the traditional
> road, issue a strongly worded protest and embargo the offending
> government's Brazil nuts. Or, we can decide that Americans and anyone else
> has a right to live unmolested by the religion and politics of others and
> make an example of the offending government in such a way that not other
> government dares to follow their lead. If that means opening the Kabul
> Glass pit to tourists, so be it. Before you object, take a look at the news
> on tv showing the joy of the Palestinians after the attack and listen to
> some of the Islamic governments who have told the tv reporters how terrible
> they feel about that attack, but that we did bring it on ourselves. That's
> not politics that Jihad.
>
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