“Or better yet, bomb them daily like we did Germany and Japan during WWII.”
Guess we have to wait until some of the biological, chemical or nuclear weapons kills a few hundred thousand Americans before we start WWII style bombing. Just hope it isn’t your city that they hit first.
“Guess we have to wait until some of the biological, chemical or nuclear weapons kills a few hundred thousand Americans before we start WWII style bombing. Just hope it isn’t your city that they hit first.”
In WWII Hitler bombed London to try terror on the English people, assuming they would “submit.”
We eventually turned the tables, bombing Dresden and Hiroshima with the same goal.
Part of the problem the western civilized world is having with radical islam may be our reluctance to bring terror down on their civilian populations, until they turn on their own terrorists.
Maybe sooner, maybe later. (So far we are playing with self-imposed rules, against a huge population which is growing terrorists faster than we are killing them.)
You are right we probably won’t get really serious until they succeed with a major hit of some kind.
Bush’s ideas about democracy seem problematic, too. The muslims will elect terror supporting regimes, which sets us back.
So we are stuck with the Saudi monarchy, the Egyptian dictatorship and the Pakistani mess. It would be interesting to learn about military contingency plans to poison water and ruin food sources.