[Lawgvr1955]

I advocate declaring war on these terrorist like was done in Jefferson's time against the Barbary Pirates. To heck with arresting these killers and "bringing them to justice". Justice, like beauty is open to many interpretations.

This is war. Total war is not open to many such interpretations.

[68skylark]

You make a good point -- I've often thought that our war against piracy has a lot in common with our war on terrorism.

I'm sorry to say, though, that even that war was tarnished by excessive bureaucracy. I know we all like to get nostalgic and misty-eyed about the "good old days" when we could execute the bad guys quickly, but it wasn't always an easy process.

I read that in some parts of the world, the U. S. Navy would sometimes drop off captive pirates with the British Navy -- seems the Brits had a lot less paperwork to go through, and were willing to have a hanging the next day. Now that's efficient!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

This is war. Total war is not open to many such interpretations.

I wish we would nuke just one area, just to get the muslims attenion.