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The abolition of the caliphate, then, accomplished precisely the opposite of what Ataturk hoped it would: it gave the adherents of political Islam a cause around which to rally, recruit, and mobilize.

After MAD there won't be enough Muslims left in the world to worry about. When the "homeland" is radioactive, and oil fields are burning, every country they've gone to war with will seek revenge. And we won't be there to defend them. The strong countries will march in, put out the fires and steal the oil. No one's going to pretend there's a right and wrong when we're gone. It'll be might makes right. And the middle east has never had "might". No one will help them. It's not going to be pretty.... Millions of us would be dead too, but we'll come back. They won't.

won't be enough Muslims left in the world to worry about. When the "homeland" is radioactive, and oil fields are burning, every country they've gone to war with will seek revenge. And we won't be there to defend them. The strong countries will march in, put out the fires and steal the oil. No one's going to pretend there's a right and wrong when we're gone. It'll be might makes right. And the middle east has never had "might". No one will help them. It's not going to be pretty.... Millions of us would be dead too, but we'll come back. They won't.

Haven't I read this in the bible somewhere???

MAD worked and was useful because the communists could be counted on to act in their own self interest. They knew that if they attacked they would be destroyed. In that sense they were reasonable. With Muslim ideology the thought process is not so linear. These things are nazis flavored with suicidal religious fervor.

Tancredo has been vilified greatly, but some in power must be considering this option. I would like to know what the trigger will be to utterly destroy these villains. More than that, I would like for the islamofascist to know what the trigger is. It is my belief that they do not believe there is any trigger, and therefore if there was an internal impediment to them imposing a nuclear strike, it is dissipated by the notion that we will not do such a thing. If I am correct in assessing these fascists, then we are sticking our finger in he dike and waiting for the bomb to detonate. New York, Washington, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Omaha?

If we persist in seizing the misunderstanding of Islam and press the issue of a "peaceful religion", we will loose, if only by allowing these terrorists to inflict their terror.

I have one other question for all of my freeper friends. When a nuclear device is detonated in this country, what will be our response? For our leadership to respond is to immediately affirm that their assessment was wrong and therefore their remedy was wrong. Their failure to be honest in this assessment and engage in their willfully inaccurate analysis of a "peaceful religion" will carry a price too high to imagine.

I am not smart enough to know what to do. No American wants innocents to die,....not American....not Arab. As President Bush said, we may be effective in stopping 100 attacks. They have to be effective in carrying out a singular attack to effectuate the near destruction of Western civilization.

If this is a war in the sense of WWI and WWII, and I think it is, then it seems the proper response is to end it as quickly as possible. I believe we need to demonstrate our willingness to pull the nuclear trigger. Perhaps in the Tora Bora region of western Afganistan/eastern Pakistan region and serve notice upon all Arab leaders that are beligerents toward America that they need to know that their capitol may be next if al Queda is not destroyed.