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br> North Carolina /p> p> Bad theology and poor science are leading some of God's people astray. Rather than focusing on the myth of global warming it would behoove liberal evangelicals to take their own resources and work to end drug abuse and gang violence in America's Democrat-run urban killing fields. If there is global warming, time and nature will take care of it as they always do. br> -- Michael Tomlinson br> Jacksonville, North Carolina /p> p> OUTTA HERE br> Re: William Tucker's In the Line of Fire : /p>

Two lines in William Tucker's "In the Line of Fire" offer examples of the reasons conservatives like me are ready to "cut and run": "The IA didn't give chase." And "The machine gunner does not return fire."

Let's imagine that these incidents happening in the U.S. Do you think no one would do anything? Absolutely not! We understand that in order to keep the lid on criminal activity, we must ruthlessly pursue every infraction of the law. But in both Iraqi cases, two groups of people committed crimes, the terrorists and the civilians who knew about the planned crimes and refused to inform the police about them, and no one did anything. Obviously, civilians don't report such criminal activity because they're more afraid of the terrorists than they are of the police or military and I don't blame them. But until we adopt a policy of pursuing every single incident of a crime and punishing all parties involved, even the civilians who knew of the crime, criminal activity will continue to flourish. Instead, the leadership prefers to bribe the population to obey the law through building schools and improving infrastructure. But civilians know they can have both the American gifts and immunity from the terrorists by keeping quiet about the terrorists, because they know they can do nothing that would cause the Americans to quit giving the gifts.

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