The thing that I really can't understand is that even though no terrorist has ever got what they wanted (at least as far as I know...maybe one did somewhere), they continue to do it.

I just don't understand why. I mean...so bin laden wants us out of the middle east. OK, so that is what he wants. But is he so clueless to not see that only when it's been done peacefully (MLK, Ghandi) has protest really had a major effect?

If there were peace, would we have a need to have troops over there at all? If they were to get along peacefully, couldn't we let them go on about as they wish?

Why is it that they can't understand that?

I dunno...maybe I'm just rambling.
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"Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist