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 Wysłany: Wto 8:54, 06 Sie 2013 Temat postu: that's better than zero |
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| are religious. The chances that a religious terrorist group will collapse in the wake of a decapitation strategy are 17 percent. Of course, that's better than zero, but it turns out that the chances of such a group fading away when there's no decapitation are 33 percent. In other words, killing leaders of a religious terrorist group seems to increase the group's chances of survival from 67 percent to 83 percent.There's more and some qualifications. My sense of this, rightly or wrongly, is that we do some really awful things to make ourselves feel better. I don't know that Jordan is ultimately right. But I wonder about how much room our leaders enjoy on these issues. If we cut the number of strikes back, or stopped them all together, I can just imagine the attack ads. I'm not arguing that that makes it right, so much as I'm trying to understand the context.That said, I can imagine how I would respond if I saw the U.S. lobbing bombs into my country that routinely killed innocents. I know exactly whose side |
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