What would be YOUR strategy for conducting a long-term Terrorist War?

ideas from others Defeating terrorism will not be easy. It will be a protracted operation that will pit us against an illusive group of scorpions that includes those in leadership positions in terrorist organizations, their aides and lieutenants, the leaders of nations that support them, and the followers of those leaders.

The only way to stop terrorism is to make the price of terrorism exceedingly high for not only the ideologically driven terrorist foot soldier but for those that command and support him.

We need to name the enemy. Osama bin Ladin is not the only person we need to kill -- either in battle or by execution -- to stop terrorism. We need to list the names of the leaders of about 50 other terrorist organizations by name and add "and anyone in those organizations". President Bush needs to remind people in the United States that our laws allow us to execute those who were accessories before the fact, that is, who gave assistance to the perpetrators, or after the fact, who may have helped other accessories escape detection. Our policy should be that we will execute all accessories before the fact and have nothing less than life in prison without parole for the others.

President Bush must call on all nations to capture and extradict anyone mentioned on the list or anyone who is a member of their organizations. His warning should include the caution that expelling those individuals is NOT an acceptable response and that we will consider an expulsion to be aid and comfort to our enemy and will take appropriate military-political actions.

We need to target known terrorist training camps. We should use our oxygen-fuel vapor weapon which will kill just about everyone in those camps. Any nation that opposes our doing so to camps within their borders should have its military destroyed entirely. We should sink every ship in their Navy, destroy every artillery piece, every missile, every tank and every truck. In addition, we should set their military stores of ammunition and their munitions manufacturing completely. We would likely only have to do this to one nation. We should then demand the unconditional surrender of that nation, take there political leadership, and try them for complicity in acts of terrorism and execute them. (This is the method the Romans used. They had "peace" from about 50 BC till about 450 AD.)

With terrorists the only exit strategy is really a strategy of when do we stop. We don't ever really stop. We just suspend operations when we have destroyed completely the top ten terrorist organizations. Whenever a new act of terrorism occurs we again root it out and destroy it by killing all of those, regardless of age or gender, who were responsible and jailing all the other members in primitive conditions for life with no parole.

no exit stragedy needed..........this will be a war fought till the end of time. You just have to get it in your head that there is no exit stragedy to the defense of the country. It should be an on-going operation.

Personally I think we should double our satellite capabilities and any time we see any type of terrorist related training anywhere we strike quickly and with the type of response that makes ex-military folks like myself sit back and say "Holy Sh*t". If we do not respond in that fashion you can bet that the terrorists will not say "Holy Sh*t" either.

In dealing with the hunt of these cells across the globe I say the old tried and true movement to contact is the best military option as well as special ops raids for the more remote locations.

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