Originally Posted by SilentKnight

You can - but you'd have to be willing to think and act with equal fervour as they do. Fight fire with fire...so to speak. And for the most part the West doesn't have the stomach for that sort of eye-for-an-eye determination.

Some would say we'd be compromising our ideals by lowering ourselves to their level. That two wrongs don't make a right.

There'd be no winners in the final outcome.

I fear this is a 'battle' that's already been lost.