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

[JackRiddler]

30. Did Libya ever invade a nation on the other side of the world...

on a false pretext, in a war of aggression, killing hundreds of thousands of people?

Did Libya have bases and carriers and submarines with missiles and warplanes and nuclear weapons at the ready around the world, claiming the right to strike in any country at any time entirely at its own discretion?

Was Libya, for all its human rights violations, imprisoning the highest proportion of its own people of any country in the world? Most of them for dealing drugs?

You don't experience these things, therefore you can treat them as less than real. Fascism (by whatever name, I'm using the one you chose) occurs for now in neatly separated compartments. In another compartment, down the street, all seems peaceful and prosperous and free, and the people there don't have to think about it. Fascism? Ridiculous!

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There is no "collateral damage" by the way. If you make a decision to start a war, it is also a deliberate decision to kill the unarmed civilians who will inevitably die from it in large numbers as a statistical certainty. You kill enough of these thousands and a few of them might feel justified in retaliating more directly against your own civilians. The ratios are still many more of them killed. And what are you doing in their countries, again?