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Robert — (archived)

Frank, c'mon, you're trying to obfuscate the issue by dragging in red herrings like "peaceniks" and machineguns and catapults and grenades, to change the discussion to an area where you figure you might have stronger arguments.

I'm talking only about napalm, the terror weapon that the US is so ashamed of using that the Pentagon lies not only about our having used it on several occasions in Iraq (both wars, it turns out), but even the fact that we possess it. New Napalm™ differs from Napalm Classic™ only in the substitution of kerosene for gasoline. A rose by any name...

The greater issue is the need for America to take the moral high ground. Someone who lacks our quasi-religious faith that America is always morally superior no matter what we do, might look at things like Bush's body count exceeding bin Laden's by an order of magnitude, and wonder at our claims of moral superiority. It behooves us to set a higher standard than the terrorists we're fighting.

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