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We are already in an all-out war against "terrorists everywhere."
What more can we do on the offensive front?

We are not in an all-out war. How many factories in your town
have stopped making widgets and converted to production of war materials?
Have you been issued your gasoline ration card?
Are there still young men in your town that haven't been activated?
How many times in the last year has the front page of your paper
had the headline "Capitol of rag country (fill in the blank) gone?"
Few of us here at home have been effected directly by this WOT,
as would be the case if it was a real all-out war.

We're not anywhere near "all-out" war footing, as evidenced by the continued existance of several ME nations.

Offensively one SSBN could put a stop to the rag terrorism in 15 minutes. That's all-out war.
We won't do it though, because they're not a nation destroying treat to us.
We also like to think of ourselves as civilized.

I say there ARE countries threatening US.

Lets remember that the State Department has had a list of Countries that Sponsor Terrorism. If we are attacked by Terrorist then it is legal and logical to go after those Countries.

Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? President Kennedy said that if the U.S. was hit by missiles from Cuba, the United States would react as if those missiles had been launched from the U.S.S.R. THIS is the rational we should have used after 911 and not those stupid WMD arguments. We should have said:

Hummm Terrorist hit us. Ok Dick give me that Laptop over there. Now lets see, I'm gonna open up the Wup Ass Browser.
Good. Now, move the cursor to the States Sponsoring Terrorists List. Okay Goood. Now Cut and Past the Name of any one of the Top Three (Iran, Syria, Iraq) ok Iran, yeah. Cut and Paste Iran onto the DELETE COUNTRY ICON.

Ok now give me that 1800 number for the Iranian Ayatollah. "Hey Alibububutt or whateva your stinking name is, you have 36 hours to eeeee vac uuuuu ate TAY RAN!"

Move the cursor to DELETE COUNTRY ICON, scroll down to the "PUFF IN 36 HOURS" button

and push it.

You missed my point entirely, and I thought I had made myself clear. Again, I agree with you that we're not anywhere near being in an all-out war against regimes that sponsor and harbor terrorists (although we do seem to be taking it one step at a time......Afghanistan, Iraq.....), but we are in an all-out war against (certain) terrorist organizations themselves. There's a distinction. It would be pretty though go after Al Qaeda any harder than we're now doing.

If we did as you suggested (with the SSBN's), we'd be in the nation-destruction biz, not the terrorist org destruction biz. .....and it very well may come to that one day.

We are not in an all-out war. How many factories in your town have stopped making widgets and converted to production of war materials? Have you been issued your gasoline ration card? Are there still young men in your town that haven't been activated? How many times in the last year has the front page of your paper had the headline "Capitol of rag country (fill in the blank) gone?" Few of us here at home have been effected directly by this WOT, as would be the case if it was a real all-out war.

Bless you for the truth.

On July 4, 2002 (first after 9-11), the Boston Globe tried to find reminiscences of the patriotic celebrations of July 4, 1942 (first after Pearl Harbor), to compare and contrast with that day's schmaltzfest.

One problem.

There were no patriotic celebrations, or any other kind, on 7/4/42, because anyone who wasn't working the third shift at the plant was either home sleeping or on a troopship.

People just have no idea.