In The Weeks Prior To The War To Liberate Afghanistan, A Good Friend Of Mine Would Ask Me Almost Every Day, “why Aren't We Killing People Yet?” And I Never Had A Good Answer For Him. Because One Of The Most Important And Vital Things The United States Could Do After 9/11 Was To Kill People. Call It A “forceful Response,” “decisive Action” ' Whatever. Those Are All Nice Euphemisms For Killing People. And The World Is A Better Place Because America Saw The Necessity Of Putting Steel Beneath The Velvet Of Those Euphemisms.

-Jonah Goldberg

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In The Weeks Prior To The War

Jonah Goldberg

In The Weeks Prior To The War To Liberate Afghanistan, A Good Friend Of Mine Would Ask Me Almost Every Day, “why Aren't We Killing People Yet?” And I Never Had A Good Answer For Him. Because One Of The Most Important And Vital Things The United States Could Do After 9/11 Was To Kill People. Call It A “forceful Response,” “decisive Action” ' Whatever. Those Are All Nice Euphemisms For Killing People. And The World Is A Better Place Because America Saw The Necessity Of Putting Steel Beneath The Velvet Of Those Euphemisms.

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Good Friend

We Are All Descended From Cavemen Who Broke The Skulls Of Their Enemies With Rocks For Fun Or Profit. But That Hardly Mitigates The Crimes Of A Man Who Does The Same Thing Today. I See No Problem Judging The Behavior Of The Islamic State And Its Apologists From The Vantage Point Of The West's High Horse, Because We've Earned The Right To Sit In That Saddle.

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Islamic