Those on the Left often claim that the proper response to terrorism is police action.
Is it?
The problem is that police action does not effectively deter crime, it only attempts to catch and punish the criminals for society. Hopefully the threat of capture and punishment deters crime and hopefully the criminals can be reformed and returned to society.
But police action doesn't work when the "criminals" don't care if they are captured. Indeed, these "criminals" capture themselves by committing suicide when the fly airplanes into buildings, blow up cars in crowded shopping markets and wear explosive belts into cafes and other stores.
Like it or not, the issue becomes:
Shall I wait until thousands of my innocent fellow citizens are dead from a terrorist attack,?
Or shall I try and disrupt the terrorists efforts by attacking them and those who support them?
It becomes then a terrible Hobson's choice. Innocent people, men, women and children will die either way.
The question is, innocent Americans or innocent "others?"
Most Americans would say, "Better them than me and my family." But let's take it a bit further.
Who is the least "innocent?"
Is it the citizens of the country that, though imperfect, has done more than any other country in the history of mankind to advance tolerance and human rights? And who have paid a terrible price in lives and treasure to defeat three "isms" that killed perhaps 100 million?
Or is it the citizens of the countries that are ruled by governments and a religious law that enabled the terrorists and created societies that tolerated honor killings, no rights for women, hanging of gays, etc?
Given that the citizens of America cannot change the countries creating such evil without attacking them, and given that the citizens of the countries described have not changed them, it is obvious that the citizens of those countries bear responsibility for the actions of the terrorists, although the individuals condemn the terrorists and would live in peace with the world. It is then, the lack of action that is the problem.
The bottom to all of this is that Islam must reform itself. That is up to individual Muslims. Until then we have every right to attack and kill those who would attack and kill us.
If innocents die it is the fault of the terrorists and the innocents who allow the terrorist to live in their midst.
This is unfair to the individuals. But life is not fair.
Theme also posted on The Tennessean.
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From a textbook
ReplyDeleteabout Criminal Justice:
Aggressive police patrol efforts have been a critical success. The downturn in the New York City violent crime rate during the 1990s has been attributed to aggressive police work aimed at lifestyle crimes: vandalism, panhandling, and graffiti.
You confuse ordinary criminals with terrorists if your intent is to challenge police work vs military in combating terrorism. I would also say police work in the US is also a key factor in the war on terror. But that alone is a defensive stratefy that cannot succeed long term.
ReplyDeleteUsing ordinary criminals as a discussion point I have no particular objection to your point.
We can disagree over what I meant when I wrote, "....does not effectively..."
I would add that longer sentences had some effect on keeping criminals off the street,
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ReplyDeleteThe nice thing about being the blogger is I can delete the blogee...
ReplyDeleteyadda yadda DA I have no desire to play word games with you.
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ReplyDeletehehehe
ReplyDeleteWhat I have demonstrated is that I don't consider your comments worth putting up with.
If you had wanted to debate the point of the post, that military force is needed to combat terrorism outside the US, and that the loss of so-called "innocent" life is the fault of the terrorists and the governments in those countries, fine.
Instead you want to talk about police techniques, etc. So you got zapped.
Of course you have the right to not read...
I think TL pointed that out a few dozen times.
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ReplyDeleteGood by, DA!!
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ReplyDeleteYou can run, but you can't hide, PPJ
ReplyDeletehehe
ReplyDeleteNo manners, eh? Someone asks you to leave their home and you won't.
Okay, stick around and define yourself as a typical hissy fit throwing Leftie.
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ReplyDeleteNo class. None at all.
ReplyDeleteBye bye DA.
Yes, PPJ, tell us all about class.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember this classy gem of yours?
DA - You got a concession on one point. Be happy. The sun don't shine on the same dog's butt every day.
Still afraid that people will learn the truth about you?
TTFN.
That is what is called a "country boy expression." Also known as "more colorful speech."
ReplyDeleteThe lack of class I noted was your inability to leave when asked to.
Big difference, and I think you know it.
Now. If you want to make a comment that relates to the point of subject, and not argue over subsections, which is what you typically do, write away.
But if you start wandering off I will delete you.
Me blogger. You guest.
I like how you bemoan folks if they're being 'potty-mouthed' but reserve for yourself the right to colorful speech because you were brought up as a 'country boy' from the South.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of class I noted was your inability to leave when asked to.
Here, or at Talkleft?
I'm just respecting your rules here the way you have at Talkleft, FWIW.
Because JL gives you a pass on the rules(which I have my own theories about) doesn't negate the fact that you've broken them time and again. Anyone who checks the site can discover for him/herself without
too much effort.
Can't stand a dose of your own medicine?
As you've said in the past, it's the hit dog that hollers.
Anyway, this is goodby. I'll leave you to cry into your near-beer or whatever beverage you frequent when Hussein becomes President and the socialist/immigration-coddling/secret
Islamicists/global-warming alarmist America begins.
As a gesture of friendship,
I suggest you get a stockpile of food in case the post-Inuagural riots get out of hand.
Well, I see that you don't want to make a comment about the post, just make some personal attack type remarks.
ReplyDeleteBut since they are mild, I'm gonna let'em stand.
As for Tl.... You have "theories?" Good grief! That was/is a blog. And you worry about it and have "theories?"
DA. Take my advice. Step back from the Internet. Get a life.
As for stockpiling food, here at the Palatial Retirement Compound we have refitted the gun turrets for close in work and insured not only food, but a secure supply of potable water.
ROFLMAO
;-)