re: an eye for an eye.
You can only 'turn the other cheek' so many times.
........well, that explains a lot. No wonder progress with civility is almost non existent. What are you complaining about?? Your philosophy is being enacted via more wars all the time. Does that make you feel happy and more secure ?? Are you less concerned about terror activity as a result of all the death and destruction ??
Civility?.. Did you really mean to use that word in the context of this discussion/issue?
It comes down to this OB, the collective Western nations take actions with an eye towards the political fallout. If the potential price is too high, the actions are no longer contemplated. The terrorist efforts, on the other hand, rely upon a 'scorched earth' strategy wherein they believe that if they spill enough blood (especially on a basis of collateral damage targeting innocents) that the Western powers will run away, cheeping like mice.
That discord in relative strategies/logic is what will lead to more and more clinical strikes by Western nations. At some point, this fight will get down in the mud and then you'll really see the eye for an eye mentality.
Or is it just possible ......that the over reactive war response has rendered more rage and hatred against the west ???
That's the nice thingy about the jihadist directive... It doesn't require an action from the West to provoke these lunatics. Lifestyles, incompatible belief systems or the notion that their eyes were sullied by a TV program that portrayed women in a non-sharia manner can set these fools off on a killing spree.
We're infidels OB, lower than farm animals and sanctioned, by Allan hisself, to be lied to, murdered and cheated - it's an obligation.
If you could......... put your self in their place and try to see the west through their eyes. What is it that they are fighting for ...in their own way ???
What are they fighting for OB?.. Hell, many of the 'invasions' that are being employed in this discussion began with one of teh 'offended' nations crying out to the UN for help?
I am just saying that the west is not guilt free in creating this dynamic.
You are correct, but the disturbing element that you represent assesses no blame on the part of these terrorists at all.... Doesn't that wanton waste of life at the hands of these terrorist groups (against their own peoples as well) disturb you in the least?