Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.
Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
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