Posted on 10/22/2011 9:55:03 PM PDT by ventanax5
The most common justification for the Shalit deal is to wear it as a perverse badge of moral nobility. "What other country would exchange a thousand terrorists for one man." This is a close cousin of the argument that says the United States treating terrorists with kid gloves proves that it is nobler than them. Both of these insufferable arguments are symptoms of the moral decline of civilization.
If the life of a single soldier is more important than the battle, then why have battles or soldiers at all? We don't send soldiers out to fight because we think that their lives are worthless, but because the objective of war is to save even more lives than those that will be lost in fighting it. Or to preserve that liberty and independence from enemy oppression which are the qualities that make life worthwhile.
There is nothing to be proud of in a moral confusion that puts the soldier before the battle. Even less in a country whose commanders and politicians think nothing of sacrificing soldiers in order to preserve the lives of enemy civilians.
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If I were a Palestinian, I'd be humiliated by this! Even at 1:1 parity, they are admitting the value is even, and they should value their own people more.
“...If I were a Palestinian, I’d be humiliated by this!..”
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Islamics do not value human life. So where is the surprise?
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Which makes it imperative that the West does everything in its power to keep nukes out of their possession. Too late though -- the Pakis already have them. ...thanks to Bill Clinton's inaction.
When one of the released kills a few more Israelis you can tell the victim’s family all about this supperior parity.
BTW, there are more than 1000 muslims willing to give their lives for every man woman and child in Israel.
Amen!
Yuh.
I agree that it takes at least a thousand of those punks to equal one Israeli, but I don’t think we can deal in politics or war this way.
If you do the arithmetic, all those terrorists released are a large force in this war we’re in.
There are NOT 7.8 Billion Muslims hanging around slobbering for the opportunity to slay Israelis / Jews, however much it might seem that way.
While I appreciate — and agree with — your point, you really should care enough about your credibility to get it right ...
Your multiple SHOULD be something more in the range of 150..200, NOT 1000.
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21stCenturion
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