justme, you asked “Who are we to say we are better?” than our enemies, who murder, behead, and disembowl civilians. That suggests to me you do not think we are better than the people doing such things. Implicitly that means you don’t think I am better than such people; I think you have gotten personal already. You quote the word ‘evil’, a common device to indicate the writer does not believe the quoted concept applies. That suggests to me you do not think our enemies are evil. It’s amusing that you now invoke morality, a concept I honestly wonder whether you believe. I ridiculed your ‘selection criteria’ by observing that in two wars Bush has managed to violate two of the four you list, while suggesting a third (don’t attack countries with nuclear weapons) is hardly a recent American Republican innovation. I noted that you try to blame Bush for weapons programs begun over a decade ago. I consider all that responding to what you claim to be fact.
