Range War

[Will Robinson]

Remember all this is in the context of who is more dangerous to American lives. Ted Cruz and his Tea Party peers in congress or any brand of terrorist who actually kills Americans.

The answer to that will become painfully clear, if any of these groups ever get their hands on a nuke.

And there is the rub. Mutually assured destruction works pretty well between us infidels. Mutually assured martyrdom?
I don't think that will work as a deterent.

[snoopy]

as noted, once you stopped bombing market places and run for office, you are something altogether different. However, I disagree about CUDAs intent. After all, the matter in question was 'dangerous to the US society' or words to that effect. Thus, I don't find that, say, Yemen, or even Egypt having radical Islamists in the political sphere poses any real threat to the US society. They are interested in their own world, not attacking Western symbols or institutions, which should be seen as further progress in weakening the whole idea of terrorism as an effective tool.

I understand.

In a sense this comes down to a question of (and difference of opinion on) what aspects of "US society" we treasure the most. You obviously rate economic prosperity very highly. I tend to rate autonomy and personal freedom higher than economic prosperity. I suppose at the end of the day the voters make similar judgments, whether they realize it or not.