You can't kill your way out of your problems. If that was possible, we wouldn't still be arguing over the death penalty; there would be no dissent in places like Iran; and people would be naming their babies after assholes like Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot. Half a generation from now, what's the likelihood of a Muslim kid growing up in Iraq or Yemen or Afghanistan with the name Barack? I'm not making Obama equivalent to those legendarily monumental piles of bug shit. I wouldn't need to do that even if that was my intent because we should all know by now that those kids are going to get plenty of help to do exactly that.
Never worked before for anybody else - not gonna work now for us.
But hey - let's just pretend this is what American Exceptionalism is all about - we do everything better.
Just remember this one thing: People have been out to conquer the world for the better part of a thousand centuries, but somehow, the world remains undefeated.
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