aerius wrote:
By that logic, if a guy is trying to stab me to death and my only way of stopping him is to blow head off with .50AE, then I deserve to be stabbed to death.
For this analogy to be true to the Shep Solution, your "only" way of stopping the guy would be to level his entire neighbourhood and everybody in it with a B61. I'd try something else first.
Sorry, but if the Islamo-fuckers decide that destroying western civilization brings them closer to Allah, I will be glad to see them helped on their way to Allah with a magic carpet ride courtesy of the Shep Solution.
Great. We stopped (say) 700,000 Islamic terrorists from attempting to destroy Western civilisation and kill our innocents - by a massively disproportionate response that would butcher millions of civilians indescriminately in their beds and render an entire region uninhabitable for years. Good job all Ragheads are wrong'uns on a genetic level, because otherwise we
might have had some kind of moral qualm over the whole deal.
And all this for national defence, too. Not for oil, or geo-political dick-waving. No, for the purest of motives we'd commit genocide on an unprecedented scale, at vast expense, to keep ourselves safe - from a bunch of ill-educated mooks with nothing but firearms, bombs, the horrific will to use both with total amorality, and yet who can blend in with the population seemingly at will.
Of course, afterwards we'd have to have a state-organised pogrom against American Arabs and Muslims to prevent this; how else would we keep an evil Fifth Column from wreaking havoc from within? Heck, the people might be holding a grudge against us. For some reason.
And once they're safely dead or locked up for good, we can get on with our good, wholesome, innocent lives, in peace.
"Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr I'm-My-Own-Grandpa! Let's get the hell out of here already! Screw history!" - Professor Farnsworth