Comments on: Mitch McConnell Drafts Casey Anthony Into the War on Terror http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2011/07/11/mitch-mcconnell-drafts-casey-anthony-into-the-war-on-terror/ Human Rights First builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2011/07/11/mitch-mcconnell-drafts-casey-anthony-into-the-war-on-terror/#comment-17174 John Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:35:56 +0000 http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/?p=13336#comment-17174 While we're on the subject of justification related to the war on terror cause, when the US released its new official counterterrorism strategy a couple of weeks ago, it included an objective to attack violence-supporting ideologies. It may sound nice at first, but after taking into account how good the typical person is at telling ideologies apart, I can see it in one of several ways: Either it includes all NATO-supporting heads of state among those that the policy opposes, or, it throws concepts like self-defense and forgiveness out the window, or, nobody took into account that attacking ideologies is one of the all-time great ways to incite violence, or, someone in the government is strongly opposed to American professional football. While we’re on the subject of justification related to the war on terror cause, when the US released its new official counterterrorism strategy a couple of weeks ago, it included an objective to attack violence-supporting ideologies. It may sound nice at first, but after taking into account how good the typical person is at telling ideologies apart, I can see it in one of several ways:

Either it includes all NATO-supporting heads of state among those that the policy opposes,

or, it throws concepts like self-defense and forgiveness out the window,

or, nobody took into account that attacking ideologies is one of the all-time great ways to incite violence,

or, someone in the government is strongly opposed to American professional football.

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