
Originally Posted by
RoadToad
You're right, we can't reason with extremists. And if we could easily pick out those who would kill all westerners on sight, I'd say fine, shoot 'em, although I think a worse punishment would be life in prison, so that they couldn't be glorified as "martyrs." But not all Muslims are extremists, or even a majority of them. There are quite a number of them who, while they don't necessarily like America, their beef (legit or not) is with the "gubment" (as you like to call it), not with the American people. Those are the ones Obama is reaching out to, and what's wrong with that?