A far more muscular response on 9/12/2001 would have saved the world a great deal of trouble. Despise all you like. Waaaaaaay over there is where you go to GFY.
Imagine the world today if Mecca woulda got hit with an H-bomb on September 12th. It coulda ushered in several decades of peace.
Dammed straight Noumenon!
We have pulled our punches since WW2 and made war a f——ng sport game played by professionals again... until one side decides to get serious and pops folks that aren’t armed. We haven’t taken war seriously enough to do that in 80 years.
If we ever get our hate on enough to draw the dammed sword in the first place, get the awful over with in a few hours and give some folks that are thinking about same or similar a REALLY GOOD reason to NOT. Two decades of patty cake that the other side looks at as a cost of doing business isn’t deterring diddly.