Quote Originally Posted by jake View Post
It's about the people with no particular axe to grind who just want to get on with their lives. I'm personally of the opinion that if we go around torturing, executing and behaving in exactly the way that the radicals say we behave, we're not going to do much to convince moderate Muslims that we have anything to offer them.

Jake Sir, I agree with you. There is a difference in what we say/do and what others say/do about us. Not to get all religious and crap but there is a time for war and a time for peace. God has His wrath and His mercy. Battlefield combatants ought to be sent to meet their Maker and see our wrath. Those other peoples should see the mercy... We build houses for them after bombings, we try to support their infrastructure, we pour billions of dollars into the local economy, etc. And yes, we make mistakes. I don't know...

If they are not changed by seeing a hardend "infidel" soldier kill a suicide bomber (who was about to take several locals with them), fall down and cry, then get up and APOLOGIZE to the locals for the killing... then to turn around and start helping with the rebuilding of a temporary shelter for the locals, etc.... I don't know what to do. If the moderate muslims stay off the battlefields, they'll be ok. Unfortunately, it's the extremists that live in their midsts that mess things up. There is no surefire way to sort them out. Pysch speaking, they will cover for their own regardless of beliefs before trusting an outsider.

The old saying is still true. You have to talk the talk and walk the walk.

Peace.