Ian Crossland
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There's a, we don't negotiate with terrorists is a line in a lot of movies where it's like heroic.
You're like, yeah, yeah, good.
We're done because terrorists will take civilians hostage and be like, do what we say or we're going to kill them all.
You're like, what other choice do we have than blowing all of you up at this point?
We don't negotiate.
That's the right thing to do.
And it's the horrific truth of war.
You know, if someone uses humans as shields, they're all going down.
The morality argument is if you took someone's food away and then they started stealing food to survive and you're like, hey, look, it's a thief.
Everyone destroy the thief.
Like, well, you took his food away.
And it's the same thing with the Iranian oil supply in the 1900s.
But that's just completely incorrect.
British oil companies.
We don't want to harm you, but you've backed us into a corner.
We have no choice.
They said, we never wanted to harm you, but we will.
Like, that's the Islamic tradition.