Not once in that reply did I say that we should go over, find these poor downtrodden sociopaths and try to redeem them. Were I to witness a horrific assassination by beheading and I had a weapon in my hands, I'd blow away the asshole doing it.

But, if you don't acknowledge and understand the source of those idiots, other than some racist belief that they're born that way, you're relegated to repeating the back and forth of it all until the end of time. It doesn't matter who hits first. It's an endless cycle of violence that destroys civilizations.

Journalists of all media outlets including "independent" bloggers are not there simply to give you a warm fuzzy on whatever your particular beliefs are. If they're going to be quoted and used as references, they have an obligation to present the entire truth no matter how uncomfortable it makes you feel.

The whole story then includes the fact that some of these despicable human beings didn't start out that way and that US policy may have been part of the formula that created them. That doesn't cast dispersion on our entire country. If you can't handle that truth then maybe you have no right in a legitimate debate.

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