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Let's add one lasting immoral position that has enjoyed unbridled success with the victory of WWII still in the rearview mirror: The Military Stalemate is O.K. for it demonstrates "compromise" and "understanding."

p>In Korea we had a bunch of GI's killed and in the end, we tolerate a communist. In Vietnam we had a bunch of GI's killed and in the end, we tolerate another communist. br> The fall of the Wall was a rather unique circumstance where we actually made a MORAL case for why Communism was wrong…and WE succeeded because we continued to press the communist Russians and the world around them. But all the while, the compromisers fought us tooth and nail, almost claiming their prescribed victory: another compromise of containment and toleration. /p>

Since the late '70s we have tolerated a similar menace existing within a host state: the terrorist entity. The terrorist shares similar totalitarian ties and practices to the communist entity. But by hijacking a religion the terrorist is provided cover to meld into any populace within any border. Occasionally we get lucky and a bullet, delivered only after the expense of congressional legislation, finds a few of them. But it has become a festering problem with an ever increasing number of host countries whom are no longer shy about hosting such entities. Rather than spreading precious resources and troops too thin we then either opt to contain or negotiate another compromise with another host, even after the deaths of more Americans.

We in the West are the ones going insane trying to deal with terrorists and their hosts on their terms. We have elevated them to a position of worthiness by inviting them to not only debate the size and shape of the negotiating table but the squeeze-ability of bathroom tissue as well. Having been granted access by the "tolerate" class access to our courts, the insane have been saved from what would have been their last stand: the battlefield. The insanity of their position enjoys libertarian cachet now being considered by the likes of our Supreme Court, and in effect transforming them into a legitimate grievance to be argued before our legal system.

If one hangs around insane folks long enough and we have allowed them ample media exposure as well, you become more like them. They do not have to change at all for they have become a humanized entity (with a first name) to the compromisers that have fought us all the while.

Now we're stuck with the next paradigm: "We can't kill them, because we've known them for so long." They however, will continue to kill us, and we know that they will kill our friends and allies where they can, but we can't muster the moral will to kill them and solve our problem. Morality doesn't demand tolerance of the insane, morality demands that we do sane things like ridding ourselves of the insane and the insanity among us.

Joe 6-pack has no problem seeing the terrorist wiped out. Joe 6-pack is wondering why we keep screwing around with these punks. Joe 6-pack can and will pull the trigger and live with them selves after the fact.

p>It is the politician that has compromised Joe 6-pack's ability to do the moral thing because the politician like a John Dingell (D-MI), a UN, or our own State Department hasn't the courage to draw a moral distinction between good and evil, and they are the only ones who are afraid of living with the decision. br> -- P. Aaron Jones br> Huntington Woods, Michigan /p>

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