Originally Posted by CaptainNameless

No. It's NOT a tough call. I would rather get blown up than live in police state where 5 year olds get molested as a matter of security policy. Where a government can order you to either risk increasing your chances of developing cancer, or face getting hand-raped.

All in the name of "security." All to stop terrorists from "succeeding."

How much freedom and liberty do we have to lose before the terrorists have, in fact, won their victory? How much money can we really spend to fight them? For every $1 the jihadists spend, we probably spend $10,000 to fight/slow/stop/disrupt them. When we have spent ourselves into so much debt that we have no way and no hope to repay it, how secure are we then?

The U.S. military operation in Afghanistan annually costs the U.S. around 6 times that nation's ENTIRE economy. If the U.S. had simply given all that money directly to the Afghan people, the standard of living of those people would have been six times higher than it is (if you could keep corruption under control). How interested in global jihad would those people be if they had a life that was 6 times more comfortable than what they have now?

We are fools. Osama is sitting around his warm campfire talking with his buddies right now. They are drinking tea and telling stories about how in only 10 short years they got Americans to rip out their own souls with their own hands and strangle them dead in front of their own children-- souls that long ago valued liberty above all else, even our own lives.They are laughing at us. They should be.

We are fools.