The world is governed by ...

Submitted by Johnnie Angler (United States), Jun 9, 2006 at 23:11

The world is governed by the use of force. That is how the government collects taxes, for example, by the threat of throwing you in jail or punishing you. It is also how peace is won. It is how we defeated Germany and Japan.

Having said that, I believe that we (the west including Israel) should unleash hell on select Muslim countries in order to break their will to eliminate us. I would like to be proven wrong. I would like see an arab nation be a broker for peace and not war. But from all I've seen, Muslims are ALWAYS on the side of war, killing, and cruelty. Even to fellow Muslims. How many Muslims have won Nobel Peace prizes? 1? 2? How many Jews and Christians? Dozens? Why do suicide bombers target children and grandmothers on a bus or in a pizza shop? Yet we spend fortunes on Precision Bombs so that we can avoid hitting civilian targets. It would be far cheaper to just drop a hundred dumb bombs on a city block rather than to taget 1 building with 1 bomb to avoid civilian casualties.

I'm rambling, but I had to get some of that off my chest.

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