Posted on 05/24/2005 3:02:22 PM PDT by Bald Eagle777
Raise your hand if the idea of al Qaeda getting its hands on a nuke never, ever, ever occurred to you.
Wow, glad we have these "think tanks"...I would have never thought about it, if not for them!
Once weekly al-Qeada nuke bump!
"impervious to threats of retaliation"
Oh, let's not be too sure about that. Someone would pay.
Does it really matter? It just detracts from some one not giving some prisoner his Koran in the proper way, or, not opening the floodgates for any and every illegal that crosses the border. /sarcasm
Do ya think they'd set off a big boy if they knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a US boomer would immediately vaporize Mecca? Think of all the korans that would be desecrated...I shudder to think of it.
I'll second that DUH!!
An accommodation with a religion? Why doesn't the writer just say Arab/Islamic terrorists. They are the foot soldiers of terrorism directed at the West. They are the enemy. Why cater to them? This is just more PC groveling by cowards in the West.
Yes, they would. They'd think such an action would galvanize all Islam. Forgetting that the first nuke would galvanize the US, and we have lots more nukes to "play" with.
I dunno. They crap bricks over rumors of books being dropped in toilets - Mecca is the home to that damn rock they all swarm over.
"History of the Ka'aba
The Ka'aba located in the holy Islamic city, Mecca, is a massive black meteorite, and the sacred stone of the Islamic faith. Muhammad deemed the meteorite was a sacred stone in 630 AD. Wherever a Muslim is located, they are instructed to pray towards Mecca and the Ka'aba. Every Muslim must make a pilgrimage to the Ka'aba once in their lifetime. The pilgrimage represents the ultimate in spiritual fulfillment. During the worship at the Ka'aba the pilgrims circle the shrine seven times, and then all make their way to kiss the sacred shrine. The prayer towards the Ka'aba and the pilgrimage to Mecca create a distinct unity between the Muslim people. "
Seem like it would do more than galvanize them. It would crush them.
I vote for a go.
Worshiping the 'fallen star'.....
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isa. 14:12-14)
Luke 10:18 And He (Jesus) said unto them (the 12)
"I beheld SAtan as lightning fall from Heaven"
The world was freaking out at the HINT that we flushed a Koran..Do you think we have the balls to flatten Mecca ? I dont
More like a Jeep.
Nah...just a moped.
I'd let 'em know, up front and plainly, if there is a WMD attack on USA homeland, and if responsibility can be laid to any islamo group, then the penalty is IMMEDIATE DESTRUCTION OF MECCA.
No debate. Nothing.
We need to grow a pair, if we are to survive. We cannot look at our enemy as if he thinks like us. He does not.
Oh, and BTW, the world doesn't give a crap about us, so I don't think their opinion matters one hill of poop.
The AQ nuk angle is not new, as we all know. I try to sort through as much data as possible and let the sources speak for themselves, verbatim. Anyone with anything to say on this subject becomes of interest to me. Any changes in analysis or any general statements of position or opinion I tend to look at. Today, this is what the cat brought in. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
In this specific instance, I tend to, shall we say, "disagree" that there is somehow a political solution (as opposed to a military-only approach) to terrorism generally, and AQ specifically.
That there can be any kind of possible "political" solution is completely unacceptable, particularly when it comes to a nuk AQ.
We’ll see what the next think tank has to say, that is for dead certain.
What would you (reader of this) do if you were a bad boy head of a regime like North Korea or Iran?
So our enemies could send nukes to us by way of Al Qaeda. That's possible. More likely, if they think it would work to confuse and set us up for a more effective follow-up attack of their nuclear missiles, they'll do it.
And that's a scenario that our leaders must (and probably do, I hope) plan to deal with. We should keep as much of a technical manufacturing base (large pool of citizen engineers and technicians) as we can, IMO.
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