kakomu Wrote:Because me threatening to fuck someone up if he threatens me is far different than waging war on a global basis that involves innocents and collatoral damage. It's a fist fight (where I would obviously win) vs global nuclear end. You're right, that's not different at all! I'm such a hypocrite!
You still haven't answered my question. How do you reconcile an attitude of violence as a means to solve 'threats' when you claim to hate war? No matter what you hear from the left or the right, if there was a 'threat' of WMD's, then they acted. Yes, it does suck that it turned out to be wrong. But it is the same as if you thought someone threatened you, had your mature 'fist fight' and then found out you were wrong. As I see it you ARE wrong and you ARE a hypocrite. If you hate Bush's war, then you also have to hate violence in all its forms, you can't have any credibility by living a double standard. If you really feel that peace is the answer and war is evil, then your personal behavior would reflect that, but it doesn't.
And, I am also curious, did you feel Clinton was out of line when he had his troop kill Christian Serbs on the behalf of Albanian Muslims? Did you feel he was out of line when he promised to bring home the troops after a year and didn't keep his promise? Or is that 'different'?