tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post4075802442920731414..comments2024-02-23T13:15:42.158+13:00Comments on Dissecting Leftism: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-52500633404753531042015-12-22T14:33:13.338+13:002015-12-22T14:33:13.338+13:00Exterminating the entire bloodlines of terrorists ...Exterminating the entire bloodlines of terrorists makes plenty of sense. One of the incentives routinely promised to suicide bombers and other jihadists is that their families will be richly rewarded financially. If perpetrating an act of predatory war were instead to mean that a jihadist's entire family would be exterminated, that could easily change the incentives - (empty) promises of eternal paradise in a celestial brothel, versus certain extermination of one's entire bloodline. Hmm, which to pick?Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-74985079766051504102015-12-20T10:58:36.253+13:002015-12-20T10:58:36.253+13:00Killing terrorist families may be strategically ne...Killing terrorist families may be strategically necessary. Important, though, is from where we act, from emotion or from sensible reason. Whatever is done should be done because it is required, not to satisfy any sense of revenge. When combat becomes emotional it gets messier than it already is; loses sight of its cause and objective. For best results combat must be kept rational and its cause and objective maintained. <br /><br />The Russians are good at keeping emotion out of combat. They make good soldiers, chess player, boxers and wrestlers for that reason. Smart western leaders would work closely with the Russians in planning and managing Middle Eastern problems. The Russians are their own people though, not westerners or easterners. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com