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I do not disagree. As I wrote, my definition of weapons is that a weapon is more than the physical thing. It is more than a bullet or a bomb. It is strategy, willpower, tactics, political commitment used to sucess to defeat an enemy by the application of power. We have the power and now we must use it.

I'll digress and consider a problem we have with respect to a sucessful srategy. The elite media and bleeding heart types will forever equate the sucessful strategy of President Truman and that of unsuccessful Hitler with that of opression, barbarism, Hitler-like, etc., that is, if war is not pretty, surgical, sterile, fast, cheap, not bloody and immediately victorious then it must be wrong, criminal, Hitler-like, you name it, it will be in the op-ed page. War is dirty and the first consideration in war is to win. Pick up the pieces later.

BTW, a former communicant in this thread was posed these precise questions which were not answered. I commend you for considering them. Consider them, point by point, question for question, then offer a final understanding. It would please me and I suspect it would offer insight into the Socratic method, the basis for civilized thinking and understanding.