[Blueflag]

An easy response in a PC world would be high altitude, high throw-weight nuclear burts. The primary effect would be EMP -- electromagnetic pulse -- halting the function of virtually all 20th and 21st century devices. Do it at night so the visible and psyops impact would be extraordinary.

The 'receiving' locations would be knocked back to the 1600s in terms of technology for a long time. Follow it up with a "sucks being you" message via leaflets.

No Al Jezeera tapes/broadcast, no Toyota SUVs to run around in, no ability to conduct banking or pump water, no loudspeakers on the mosques, and no functioning satellite phones, cameras or laptops for the foreign 'journalists' to report with. And no ability to manufacture modern weapons either -- factories wont run.

Follow up is easy. Just lob a couple more as needed to remove any modern convenience that pops up.

You get the added value of destroying the geostationary satellites that provide comms to the region as well, not that anything would be functioning to receive a signal anyway.

After a day or so the atmosphere would calm down, and our satellites could resume monitoring the affected region for ANY sign of electronic activity, because now the signal-to-noise ration would be MUCH better. The surviving emitters MUST have been hardened, so now they are are point targets. We get to play pin the JADAM on the donkey.

EMP -- IT's an amazing indirect fire weapon with long-lasting effects on 'civilization' ;-)

[section9]

Your suggestion has the side benefit of being quite puckish, but it misses the point.

Arabs understand one thing: force or the threat to use it. Threatening them with deactivation of their PS2 sets just won't do it.

I strongly suspect that private warnings were given to the Arabs in 2001 concerning what would happen to them should their wayward sons cross the Rubicon of WMD. As Iran closes in on a nuclear capability, it is now time to establish an Eisenhower-like doctrine of Massive Retaliation, involving every element of our nuclear triad.

The Islamic Fascists will understand that, right down to the last shahid. Right now, our policy is too publicly ambiguous.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Travis McGee]

63 works for me.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Or ? if they are worried about fallout in the rest of the world,, use some BIG BLUES , bigger impact and blast than a daisy cutter or a few M.O.A.B.s.

[Ethyl]

An easy response in a PC world would be high altitude, high throw-weight nuclear burts. The primary effect would be EMP -- electromagnetic pulse -- halting the function of virtually all 20th and 21st century devices. Do it at night so the visible and psyops impact would be extraordinary.

Good idea, but no, it is better to just neuk them, don't have to deal with them later, better they be GONE, so they don't teach their dimwitted children their ways. No, just get rid of them, death to them all in the muslim world. They started it, we should finish it!