The only fanatics with which I am trying to reason are the ones on this website. If we are inflicting injustice on anyone, the only people with which we need to reason are ourselves. I have NEVER excused any act of Terrorism.

The standard ideology here at TownHall is that the IslamoWhackJobs try and inflict terrorism on America and the West solely because we do not accept Allah as the one true God and we do not bow in submissive acceptance of the worldwide Caliphate. It is such blasphemous apostasy to suggest that the last 150 years of American and Western behavior may have something to do with Islamic terrorism that only masochistic appeasers would even raise the issue. Do I have that about right? I invite you to examine this map of all Islamic Terrorist attacks from 9/11 to the latest atrocious beheading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10077373/Graphic-terrorist-attacks-by-al-Qaeda-Islamist-and-Islamic-terrorist-groups-2001-2011.html Note the complete lack of fatal attacks in South Amercia. I guess that means they are all Muslims in South America already?

What did we do to provoke pirates of any nationality to attack our ships? Don't ask foolish questions.

Do you really believe that there is no relationship between the last century of intervention, invasion, occupation and economic exploitation of the Muslim Middle East by America and the West and the desire of Muslim extremists to attack us? Do you really think we would have the same threat of Islamic Terrorism in the USA and in Europe if no Western power had ever conquered any portion of the Middle East since 1850 or so? Do you really think we have no moral obligation to at least ask ourselves that question?

"And there will always be Bozos on TownHall..." Speaking of which...

I can understand the argument for bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Though I may not agree with it, I cannot deny that we did not have to invade Japan. But Dresden? How did the bombing of Dresden change or shorten the European WWII? It seems to me we just incinerated a giant Museum.

Jacoby: "Terrorism is Never Justified" And that is why we should stop the drone program as it is practiced today. We have rained death from the sky on hundreds, likely thousands, of innocent peasants. What could be more exemplifying of terrorism? "There have always been Westerners quick to see the United States as culpable or contemptible in every crisis..." And there will always be Bozos on TownHall who shout down every attempt to objectively examine the relationship between American Military/Foreign policy and the desire of Muslim extremists to attack us.

Maybe I'm corny, but you just have no sense of humor....

PB: "What Should Americans Die For?" Ummm......dangling participles?

MM: "Justice delayed is justice denied." It may take a while. cf Osama Bin Laden.

I've told you already several times that I do not have a precise definition. I instead fall back to trying to decide what definitions we can justifiably impose on each other. I do not see how you can justify forbidding a woman from taking the morning-after pill on the grounds that she is keeping a 'Human Being' from implanting in her uterine wall & thus killing it, when you and I everyone else do not even try to save all the 'Human Beings' who naturally fail to implant. It seems to that in those circumstances you are insisting that the embryo is a Human Being when it inconveniences the woman seeking an Abortion, but it is just a bit of menstrual tissue when it's Humanity would inconvenience you.