RE: Atheist Heroes?
November 16, 2015 at 3:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 3:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The level of civilian casualties, due to shock and awe, is and was lower than would be expected of many other possible plans we could have went with. There simply is no con to winning a war decisively and quickly. It's good for -everybody-, even the enemy. Do you see what happens when it gets drug out? He advocated for war to free Iraqis from a failed state, and a tyrannical despot. He advocated for shock and awe because it could end conflict quickly, and yes...with reduced civilian casualties. He -did not- advocate for our mishandling of the occupation...which accounts for those phenomenally high casualties, he was highly critical of it.
Shock and awe is not what you think it is, it didn't do what you think it did. How could a person be remiss in not explaining something that you are mistaken about? There was nothing for him to sweep under the rug, do you understand?
Did you ever see how Hitchens handled "enhanced interrogation" btw? The guy you think was being intellectually dishonest, about something you have a slight factual problem regarding, subjected himself to waterboarding and completely changed his mind, publicly, on the subject that he'd been previously very glib about.
Shock and awe is not what you think it is, it didn't do what you think it did. How could a person be remiss in not explaining something that you are mistaken about? There was nothing for him to sweep under the rug, do you understand?
Did you ever see how Hitchens handled "enhanced interrogation" btw? The guy you think was being intellectually dishonest, about something you have a slight factual problem regarding, subjected himself to waterboarding and completely changed his mind, publicly, on the subject that he'd been previously very glib about.
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