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Colonel · 10-22-2005, 08:26 AM

I don't think this war being "different" has anything to do with it. The attitudes in this country about winning anything have changed. Heck, in some schools we don't even give grades anymore because it would be bad for one kid to realize he wasn't has smart as the next kid. In a soccer league I coached in, they wouldn't keep score because they didn't want the little fellas to bad if they lost. The wussification of the country has nothing to do with this war.

I understand your thinking about the lack of political correctness breeding more terrorists. I just don't agree with it. I think the opposite is true because what you are proposing is appeasement and I think that's what got us here to start with. There are alot of experts that think Bin Laden was emboldened to attack the Trade Centers, the Pentagon and the White House because he had gotten off so easy in the past. He didn't expect us to actually come after him even if he attacked us so boldly. The fact of the matter is that we have been pouring aid into these countries, bending over backwards to appease them and basically letting them get away with their hate-filled terrorism for so many years that they figured they could take it to the next level. So, political correctness, in my opinion, caused the problem. It is not the solution.

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Colonel is Offline Master Sergeant Posts: 1,789 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Marietta, GA	10-22-2005, 08:26 AM I don't think this war being "different" has anything to do with it. The attitudes in this country about winning anything have changed. Heck, in some schools we don't even give grades anymore because it would be bad for one kid to realize he wasn't has smart as the next kid. In a soccer league I coached in, they wouldn't keep score because they didn't want the little fellas to bad if they lost. The wussification of the country has nothing to do with this war. I understand your thinking about the lack of political correctness breeding more terrorists. I just don't agree with it. I think the opposite is true because what you are proposing is appeasement and I think that's what got us here to start with. There are alot of experts that think Bin Laden was emboldened to attack the Trade Centers, the Pentagon and the White House because he had gotten off so easy in the past. He didn't expect us to actually come after him even if he attacked us so boldly. The fact of the matter is that we have been pouring aid into these countries, bending over backwards to appease them and basically letting them get away with their hate-filled terrorism for so many years that they figured they could take it to the next level. So, political correctness, in my opinion, caused the problem. It is not the solution.