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Capturing or killing Zargawi or even Bin Laden *(The Lion of Arabia) willnot solve your problem. So get the fuck out.

We’ll get out, Ibrahim, when the people of the middle east are set up with a free democracy not in the habit of sponsoring or condoning international terrorism.

Though I agree that neither bin Laden or even Zarqawi are the be-all and end-all of Islamic terrorism.  They are just figure heads.  Even if we got them another would rise in their place.

Which is why the spread of democracy is so important.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Ibrahim said, Capturing or killing Zargawi or even Bin Laden *(The Lion of Arabia) willnot solve your problem. So get the fuck out.

Sure. We’ll get out as soon as the “religion of peace” gets their collective house in order. Until then we’ll be there killing the evil sons-of-bitches who cross us. Deal with it.