• homura1650@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

    Unless you actually plan on commiting a full scale and thorough genocide, eliminating terrorists is simply not a viable strategy for defeating terrorism. If you don’t go all the way to genocide, then a sizable portion of the non-terrorists you didn’t kill will become terrorist

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      7 days ago

      You act as if people in Hamas and Hezbollah have no agency in the matter.

      Becoming a terrorist isn’t some predetermined act of destiny, it’s a deliberate life choice–the cost of which is having your dick blown off by an exploding pager.