Another one that hurts

Our new government is looking at incoming refugees as an opportunity, not a problem.

My grandparents were immigrants. Why wouldn't any newcomers contribute as much as they did?

I'm neither young nor Muslim but I believe suicide bombings are as justifiable as bombing Muslims.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Why is it that "Oops!" is an excuse when their civilians get killed? When there is no collateral damage, you can have the high ground.

Thank you.

I'm not responsible for somebody else's motives. As far as I'm concerned, killing people is killing people and it's hard to distinguish one killer from another. If you're going to bomb the bombers, you might as well have capital punishment too. Then we're no better than they are.

Dead is dead. If you see a difference between one corpse and another, perhaps you should seek to explain why.

That's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about police going into the ghetto to shoot accused criminals without a trial.Edited by ringo, : No reason given.

The fire raid on Dresden was the moral equivalent of the Holocaust. From there, it's a sliding scale all the way to lily-white, peachy-keen, hugging-bunnies-and-kittens killing. You can't defend yourself against Jihad John or Osama Bin Laden by killing their followers. That just creates more of them.

They are indeed still killing people. Your "defensive" measures aren't working.

Pardon me for having two reasons for not killing people.

The police should put down their signs that say, "Join the White Supremacists". On the contrary, the way to stop them is by carefully reasoned polite argument directed at the people who are thinking of joining them. It's force that isn't working. It's just creating more of them.

Sure it does. Your entire foreign policy is a recruiting poster for terrorists. You can't win by recruiting more of them.

Remember Vietnam? The Americans were using 4 million dollar jet aircraft to blow up 400 dollar bamboo bridges. The next night the bridges were rebuilt but the downed aircraft and their pilots took a lot longer to replace. The Viet Cong were using bicycles to bring supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Try catching a bicycle in the jungle at night. Appropriate technology tends to trump expensive technology.Unfortunately, the Middle Eastern nations are following the bad example of the US. Bombing people back to the Stone Age doesn't work when they're already too close to the Stone Age. "We" won't achieve long standing results, period. They have to solve their own problems. When we meddle in their problems, they tend to spill over into our back yard.

It isn't unusual for people with education and money to want to help their brethren who are poor and beaten down.