Terrorists use terrorism as a tactic to terrorize. They use it as a strategy to get regimes to delegitimize themselves, by acting lawlessly in response. Terrorists make a bet with history. They bet that those running the regimes they hate are basically no better than themselves. They bet that those running the regimes they hate are actually the same as they are. They bet that those running the regimes they hate are terrorists, just like them, once you strip away all the pretense.
Ultimately, terrorists can only succeed with the aid and comfort of those in power, who act just as the terrorists want them to--who act just as the terrorists would in their place. Who actually are terrorists, just like them. They need the aid and comfort of fuckwads like Joe Lieberman, who acts just like a terrorist would if he were in the US Senate--because he is a terrorist in the US Senate.
Joe Lieberman wants to strip Americans of their citizenship if they're supporting terrorism? Fine. I think that's an utterly un-American thing to do. It's JUST what a terrorist in the Senate would do--exactly what the terrorist in the Middle East would love: Look how America is destroying itself, just like we wanted!
But if Joe Lieberman wants it, and Joe Lieberman thinks he's so much more of an American than you or I, then fine. Let's defer to him. Let's start stripping Americans of their citizenship if they're supporting terrorism. And why mess around? Let's start with him! Let's strip Joe Lieberman of his citizenship, and see if that wins us the war on terror.
It could happen, right?
At the very least, it would give back the citizens of Connecticut a senate seat that belongs to them.
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