In the interest of never under estimating or minimizing the capabilities of
your opponents...This is very bad thinking. They are not criminal thugs.
They are members of a relegious group that believes in what they do. They
believe that God will reward them for this belief and for the actions they
take in forwarding this goal.

The requirement on us is to change their believes or annihilate them.
Really is not much middle ground.

I would think that seizing the oil fields and holy sites in Saudia Arabia
would be a start. Perhaps combined with the de-nuclearization of Pakistan
and Iran. I don't suggest we invade - simply annihilate if an acceptable
accomodation is not found. We continue to play with adversaries who would
in good faith remove an American City or two to prove their point. I
suggest that removing all Islamic nuclear capability is simply good sense.
Along the way remove the nuclear capability of North Korea and consider
whether or not we should do the same to India. I see no reason why we allow
nuclear capability in potentially unfriendly hands. No I do not want to go
after the Chinese or the Russians...then again their relegious beliefs are
not likely to lead to attacks on America.

It hurts me to turn into a warmonger...but I can see no other path that is
not littered with the remains of dead American Cities.

Jim

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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How does this solution work any better than what we've done so far?


Dave



It addresses the reality that we were not attacked by a country on
September
11th, but by a gang of criminal thugs.

If every time we get attacked by a gang of cirminal thugs we respond by
invading and occupying yet another country, how does that even begin to
address
the problem?

As you said, the thugs will just go somewhere else that we're not
(currently)
attacking.

Even Bush has said "We cannot prove a connection between Saddam Hussein
and the
9-11 attacks", yet our invasion of Iraq is supposed to be this brilliant
response to the terrorist attacks on America. ???
We're defending America against future attacks by letting the culprits run
free
while we dink around with a politically motivated side show? Nah.