[knighthawk]

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[ClearCase_guy]

I live in MA. I know quite a few people who think that terrorism can never be defeated, so we are foolish to try ("It just makes things worse.")

The world will always have mad bombers, but state-sponsored terrorism can and must be defeated. If Iran were taken out of the equation, the militias in the top three trouble spots would lose their funding. And a budding nuclear power would be de-fanged.

I can tolerate people who point out reasons why we should approach an attack on Iran with caution. But I truly don't undertand people (like my neighbor) who thinks attacking Iran would make the world more dangerous.

[river rat]

Sounds like the "Arab World" should get behind the war on Terror....

Or -- be victimized by Iranian style terror, if not American style terror..

Semper Fi

[Billthedrill]

One of two things will happen should this be allowed to be a pattern for the future - either the victim gives up or goes into a Chechnya-like scorched-earth plan. The latter is actually much more likely but the pieties of the international media are leading the puppet-masters to think otherwise. They have rather more trust in international opinion than is really justified because both the U.S. and Israel have inadvertently encouraged it. That's our fault.

It won't stop at Israel, of course. The Balkans are likely to be the next target and anywhere else militant Islam sets its sights on a border region. It would be ironic and cruel if the upshot is the return of ethnic cleansing as the only effective political/military resort. That worked in Spain in the fifteenth century. I fear we may be returning to that more brutal phase of history but if state-supported terror continues in this way I don't see an alternative.

[nuconvert]

" Radical militias are criminal organizations that aid and abet terrorism - no more and no less. "

This point must be driven home to the Iraqis.