Fear is the Key

Submitted by yuval brandstetter MD (Israel), Mar 16, 2006 at 16:06

The very fact that you consider retaliation as a deterrent means you do not understand Islamism and Islamic terror.

The leader imbued with Chronic Jihad Syndrome does not care a whit how many Muslims will be killed by a retaliatory weapon. Did Hitler shy from prosecuting his war just because Dresden was obliterated? Does Bin Laden lose any sleep over the scores of thousands souls lost in the Iraq war? Do Ismail Hania, Nassrallah of Ahmanijad consider human lives lost? No.

They simply consider those killed Martyrs, and encourage the Muslim Womb to make up the losses.

Should those free thinkers have access to Atomics? If you are not scared of such an eventuality, as compared with the random death of a motorcycle accident you are foolhardy, and reckless, with other people's lives.

Fear may be a far greater boon than fearlessness. I suggest you learn to fear those committed to kill you. They might just suceed, and then, how will retaliation matter?

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