Isis and Alcata Are Tough, but We're Just as Bad, Worse

I wasn't debating him about anything. I was trying to figure out what the man actually believes. It's still not clear to me, because he appeared to be contradicting himself in our exchange. In response to my questions and the thought experiments i was marshalling, trying to get to first principles, all i got back were insults. Many people seemed to think that these insults were a sign of the man's moral seriousness. And many seeme to think that belligerence and an unwillingness to have a civil dialogue is a virtue in any encounter like this. But there was nowhere in that exchange where i signalled my unwillingness to acknowledge or to discuss specific crimes for which the us Government might be