Reply #53: OK,

[Blackdg]

Let me expand upon my comment. Say we put together a focus group of terrorists, and we spend a weekend listening to them explain why they want to kill innocent civilians in London.... And we get the best minds together to fully understand why they are the way they are...

And the long and the short of it is - Because we are not like them. We wont do or believe what they believe. Because our women have jobs outside the home. Because as a society we don't really have a problem with adultery. Because we insist on making movies in Hollywood with scantily clad women. Because we won't pray 5 times a day, let alone go to church only 2 times a year. Because many of us don't believe in Allah, let alone any god.

In other words, some of the terrorists want to kill us simply because we are the "Infidel".

Yes, yes, yes, I know that a lot of terrorists want to kill us because of our foreign policy. I do not dispute that. But there are also terrorists who would happily slit our throats at the end of the focus group weekend because we are non-believers.

So now what do we do? We have taken the time and effort to fully and completely and intimately understand why they want to kill us. And the reason is because of ideology of one stripe or another.

I reject the repuke ideology as misguided (on a good day) or even evil (on most days). And so do you.

Do we have a good (or justifiable) reason to indiscriminately kill innocent women and children?