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Originally Posted by x-factor
I'd rather fight the harder fight with honor than have my kids grow up with the moral stain of some of the more expedient solutions suggested in this thread. Maybe I'm a foolish Jeffersonian idealist, but I think its worth the risk to try and preserve the flower of our society.
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I have not suggested that we do anything of the sort.
On the other hand, I think that it would be prudent to do some worst case planning. As noted, with age comes pragmatism and reality, except for the most diehard of libs.
I also think that most of the American Muslims, even the more radical ones, would be ripe for recruitment as anti-radical insurgents, if they saw the dichotomy of the Muslim states as practiced, rather than as preached.
If you want to look at historical examples, I further recommend examining treatment of Loyalists during the Revolutionary War and Unionists in the Confederacy (or Confederate sympthizers in the North).
I would rather fight those who have no honor without it myself, rather than see my children not grow up at all. Sometimes, you have to amputate a limb to save the patient. Did Lincoln destroy the Union when he suspended Constitutional rights and freedoms?
TR