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An eye for an eye

posted 10 years ago by mngwar
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The antagonist was perfectly willing to execute thousands of innocent children as long as they were not his own. As soon as he was faced with the prospect of equal retribution, he decided to reconsider. Point is the punishment should fit the crime.
While I'm not suggesting that every murderer who decimates an entire family should lose his/her family in the same manner, I do worry that society's punitive laws are becoming increasingly lax especially with the death penalty's abolition in most states. Life in prison seems to be the preferred substitute and maybe restricting someone to four walls for the rest of their natural life is a fate worse that death but what do I know. Just thinking out loud.

[–] tolla36 9 years ago

If its an eye for eye, the USA , Britain & Europe need to be carpet bombed for the next 20 years. AS theyve been doing since 1991 invasion of Iraq when saddam hussein allegedly threatened invasion of kuwait.

[–] Jerry-137 9 years ago

There have been few cases of "carpet bombing" in the U.S. or Britain's history and if it happened at all it was during WWII. Even Dresden doesn't meet the definition of "carpet bombing". Dresden was not a victim of "carpet bombing" but rather a deliberate effort at fire bombing a large German city to destroy the morale of the German populace and military that backed the war. It was a British idea that didn't work who also wanted revenge for the German's bombing of London and other populated areas. After that mistake it wasn't done any more.

So I think you are rather ignorant of what "carpet bombing" is or, you are, IMO are being extremely biased which shows when you write "allegedly threatened invasion of kuwait". In fact Saddam did invade Kuwait among other war crimes he committed like gassing the Iranian citizens in a Kurd village. Almost all bombs dropped on Iraq by the Allies were "smart bombs". IOW directed at a specific military target. Yes, some civilians died but not as the result of carpet bombing.

War is a terrible thing that has been going on since the dawn of humanity but in modern times experience has shown that the best way to avoid many civilian deaths is to quickly hit hard and unrelenting to destroy the enemy's capability to fight as soon as possible. It is the long drawn out wars that cause the most civilian casualties.

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[–] venanttout 8 years ago

Yes, some civilians died

No not SOME civilians.

One MILLION people died since the beguining of Irak 'liberation'.

And Irak is now the back location of Islamic terror.