Reply #7: There's nothing wrong with force, in certain contexts [View All]

Sometimes it's what it takes to make things right. Sometimes the threat of force is what is takes.

Unfortunately, the present misadministration seems to have adopted outright force it as their only policy; whether this mirrors and further encourages a general (probably pop-culture-fueled) might-is-right blood thirst in the American public is a good question, one I suspect that is best answered with a 'yes.' One thing that 9/11 should have showed Americans is that errant application of force can sow the seeds of self-destruction. What happened on 9/11 surely showed us that violent death is infinitely more horrifying in reality than in even the goriest of films, but Afghanistan and Iraq stand as testimony in support of the idea that we're yet to 'get it.'