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Actually namecalling is an extremely effective tool, Dual.
It may not gain you respect in an Oxford debate, but when you are in the trenches and battling people with an obviously limited thought process, name calling and insults provides the perfect impetus for them to get angry and make even bigger fools of themselves.
The argument here was never that the U.S. was squeaky clean, its that we do what we have to do to further our own interests.
My problem with Bobo is that his argument is very hollow. It's along the lines that we should try and "understand" why they committed such a horrible act of terrorism against us. That somehow our greedmongering foreign policy is justification for why we should get hit.
This naive stance fails to take literally hundreds of different issues into account. Like, for instance. All of the suicide bombers were Arab. Not Afghany, not Palestinian, but Arabs. Our allies, remember?
Maybe before we look into the proverbial mirror, those criticizing us for backing the Jews should think about how much money and resources we give to countries in the Middle East, and how they gladly take it and funnel it into their own mass media to blame the US for all of their internal strife. These countries have big problems, most of them are not caused by the U.S. The powers in those countries know, however, that if you deflect the blame to the Infidels across the ocean, it makes it alot easier to stay in power.
Buying into the "America deserves what it gets because..." argument is simply buying into the same Propaganda perpetuated by those powers who would have the U.S. be their scapegoat.
See, no namecalling. Not nearly as effective.
Nz
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