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. . . "The inherent problem here is that targeting people is pointless in a culture that doesn't value human life." . . .

You are stereotyping a whole society with an extremely wide paint brush . . . are you really aware of what you are saying and its impact? Statements like this just stir up a lot of unnecssary hatred.

We are all in a state of shock and disbelief at this time. Collectivley, it helps for all of us to discuss our feelings concerning this most horrendous act of cowardice. Revenge and retaliation are very natural emotions. But, let's channel all of these feelings in the right direction. Not every Muslim or Arab is a terrroist, nor do they all not value human life. You would be more correct with that statement referring to the Jihadists or Sheites (not sure of the spelling).

Make no mistake . . . as a nation we will extract our pounds of flesh and spill the blood of those guilty monsters. But for now, cooler heads need to prevail. This is exactly what happended to the American-Japanese after Pearl Harbor.

As hobbes1 pointed out in Post #2 if we did what you suggested all of Islam would be forced to the causes of the terrorists. Let's just leave the revenge to the professionals and give them our dedicated support. Dubya will deal with the real villains in due time . . . "payback is hell".

You are stereotyping a whole society with an extremely wide paint brush

Im making generalizations yes. The fact that 90% of the folks in Palestein supported suicide bombings in a recent poll tells me that as a generalization of the muslim culture in the mideast it is exceedingly fair.

The argument is not to retaliate against their holy sites now but to make it clear that holy sites are targets that are as legitimate or more so than american citizens. In fact attacking their holy sites is more moral than carpet bombing afghanistan and killing lots of innocent civilians in the process.

"As hobbes1 pointed out in Post #2 if we did what you suggested all of Islam would be forced to the causes of the terrorists."

I think it is time to rid the world of "all of Islam"...once and for all.

They are already terrorists, dancing in the streets over thousands of corpses.

Make corpses of them; then there can be peace.

--Boris