To: chris1
Keeping people always wondering just how much you are capabale of is a good thing in this situation. It seems however that the Islamatics believe that we are not capable of doing what is necessary to stop their march to domination.
Exactly. I'm not advocating we kill them all. I'm not sure nuking Mecca would be the right decision in case of nuclear attack on American soil (depends on the circumstances I suppose). What is a good situation is they are convinced that we will.
This is the theory of deterrent. It worked against the Russians because they wanted to live as much as we did. These nutjobs don't care. So, deterrent against islamists does not come from threat of death. So, we have to threaten something else they can't stand to lose. Perhaps Mecca is one of those things.
I don't want to nuke Mecca. Period. I want to them to believe we will. And hopefully, by doing so, we will never actually have to do it.
To: JamesP81
So, we have to threaten something else they can't stand to lose. Perhaps Mecca is one of those things. Probably not, though. They'd still be alive, as would the vast majority of other Muslims. The salamikazes might even use the event as "evidence" that Allah is angry at the Islamic world for not being aggressive enough against the infidels, and they'd probably use that to very good effect in moving toward what appears to be their near-term goal of inciting a global religious war (Islam vs. everybody else).
It would be a strategically stupid move to nuke Mecca.
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07/28/2005 12:47:07 PM PDT by
r9etb
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