"Osama bin Laden will never walk on this earth again" is the rhetoric we want to represent us?

[NashvilleLefty]

22. I understand what you're saying,

and it is a serious question, especially under the previous Bush Administration.

The real question is; at what point do we become just as bad as they are?
This is a fine line, and one that needs constant discussion.

The bottom line is that we need to maintain our moral integrity. The Christian idea of "turn the other cheek" is basically a good idea if you use the time to seriously consider why you got your cheek slapped in the first place. In the Real World if you just keep turning cheeks, you end up with red cheeks and the bully slapping you in the first place just laughs at you because he can do whatever he wants and you won't do anything to stop him.

So, as much as I support the whole "turn the other cheek" philosophy, eventually you are going to have to make a stand against the bully who doesn't believe in your philosophy.

Personally, I am a Pacifist. But, that is me and it doesn't help me negotiate with non-Pacifists.

I don't want war. But it's stupid and arrogant for me to think everyone thinks the same way that I do.

If I am a National Leader, if I turn the other cheek at every turn then I no longer have a Nation to lead, and the people I hoped to lead to Freedom are now enslaved.

If I am a National Leader, and I overstep my bounds in order to protect my people from oppression, I run the risk of creating new oppression just as bad or possibly worse than the Replacement.

I guess my point is: don't be so quick to judge.