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slime & defend hits Richard Clarke
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Originally posted by bilmore
We are never going to agree on this, so simply accept it as part of MY motivation. It has everything to do with looking at root causes and environmental fostering of terrorism. You disagree.
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I'm sorry -- I understand the "drain the swamp" view, and am not wholly unsympathetic to it, but I think we both see the difference between attacking terrorism by attacking terrorists and those who harbor them, and attacking terrorism by attacking a corrupt, despotic regime that doesn't threaten us in order to lay the foundation for conditions in the Middle East that are less likely to foster terrorism. My objections to the latter are (1) the opportunity cost -- we could have been fighting threats to us more directly with those resources -- and (2) will it work -- a question on which we differ and on which the jury is still out.
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