*I believe the use of drone missile strikes by the CIA in Pakistan to be wrong.
My response to terrorism based on hate is that it can not be to produce more hate.*

That is very sweet of you Csteele and I am sure that you have a very
kind heart. But reality prevails. Holding hands with the Taliban
and all singing Kumbaya together, is doomed to failure.

This is the problem with religious ideologies, when one group tries
to inflict them on the rest. They think that they have a god given
right to do so. Even the Catholic Church used to have people burnt
at the stake, because they disagreed with the Church. Many wars
were fought and much blood was shed, because of it.

Eventually the church lost its power, we moved on to secular
democracies as a better way to do things. Much of the Islamic
world is a few hundred years behind, on this one.

I remind you once again. It was not America which launched an attack
on Afghanistan for no reason. America responded to an attack by
Afghan residents, who were busy plotting even more attacks.

I'm not sure if you are interested in evolutionary psychology,
but I think you will find that tit for tat has far better outcomes
then turning the other cheek, which is known to be a dismal failure.

That is the reality of it.

Very hot extreme heat here today.
Been watching TV not mowing the lawn.
Watched a doco, about a book that drove the deaths of 60.000 women, in witch craft hunts over two century's.
Seems it author was quite bigoted.
But the line in the book, not believing in Witches is a sign you may be one!
Harshly reminds me, this whole problem, face it csteele, is about differences in reildgions.
All teach or once did that they are the only true one, this part of the world teaches hate, against us.
It teaches to lie to us, to be rewarded for murder,it teaches anti female rubbish.
And it maybe with its lies has fooled you, nothing said there can be believed .
You can believe that drones are both supported by me, and bringing great fear, and even more lies to some who we are better without.

To these people they have a primitive morality, "Might is right" is their basic value as seen by government in these tribal families. The strongest has the right to rule, everyone else must submit. The only way to overcome this view is overthrow them, then show Justice - "All men are equal".

While they believe it is right to bully others into submission they will persevere. The Bully must be subdued by a greater power then shown the value of equality.

Dear philo,

And what do we do when the bully is the most technologically advanced, militarily focussed, nation in the world?

*And what do we do when the bully is the most technologically advanced, militarily focussed, nation in the world?*

So Csteele, what about when the Taliban were bullying little girls,
and denying them from going to school, or women even walking on
the roads by themselves, for that matter.

Do you have sympathy for those little girls too?

Fact is that given the circumstances, the Taliban have done pretty
well actually, hiding amongst the population and hiding in the
mountains.

So the Americans dreamt up drones. They are scaring the living daylights
out of Al Qaeda now.

Why should I feel sorry for grown men who go around bullying little
girls?

I keep referring to my age, yet to me it is not an issue, feel about 30.
Yet while my brain lives that age has a benefit it is a Library, a memory of my life and the events that made me who I am.
csteele while once from the very left I was never like you,but have seen many who are.
I even that hard hit waiting for the revolution kid in 1975, laughed at the willingness of the very left to manufacture issues.
To twist truth, ignore honest events, to preach to me white was black.
And the ability's described have grown, such is this thread.
Emotional clap trap, those who skim across the surface of world events, politics,current affairs, and life, full to the brim with no understanding,like it.
But they live in a land that never existed, and never will.
Nothing the USA has done ever will do,is as inhuman, animal like, as these terrorists.
Humanity is driven by fears promises,control all invented by reildgions.
This part of the world is , while once leaders in education and culture, prisoners no less than North Koreans.
And the left, claiming still equality and all those things holds only one side accountable?
Little girls caught sining, getting an education, and burnt to death for it.