the practical reality is that only the USA is leading the anti-terror war, which makes sense since we were attacked in an unprecedented way, so to oppose our governemts efforts to battle the terrorists is tantamount to letting them off.
may I briefly interject? I would like to offer an analysis of the paragraph quoted above:
In this small part of his post Grunherz asserts that opposing the government's actions against terrorism amounts to allowing those responsible to go unpunished.
Leaving aside whether there can even be such a thing as
The
War
Against
Terrorism, this is plainly wrong.
The question is whether Grunherz would support
any efforts in the
The
War
Against
Terrorism.
Does he have a threshold of repulsion and disgust that his government must cross, in their efforts to crush terrorism, before he starts to protest? I would suggest that he does; even Grunherz would stop short of supporting carpet neutron bombing. Or maybe not.
This argument is in the same category of fallacious slogans like
"If you're not with me, you're against me"
"If you're not part of the solution then you are part of the problem"
It is based on some rather narrow reasoning; it presupposes that there are always only two options, and that they are always in diametrical opposition.
It's an oversimplification to say the least