Rarely does one find comments (such as on Digg or Fark) that are worth one's time... but this one seemed to be quite profound...

Yeah, war should definitely be fair (/sarcasm). Our unfair advantage is technology and money, theirs is the fanatic desire and pride in their religion causing them to kill themselves. War is not what it once was.

I would also posit that they are not holding themselves back secondary to (white) guilt. (Arab guilt.) Had we wanted to solve the problem, the problem would have been solved by now at the expense of civilian casualties.

P.S. Anyone catch this great debacle? "To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused," Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said in a statement. What the heck does that mean? And when are we going to drop this apology culture anyway?