[GhostSoldier]

Some valid points IMHO, others not. For your consideration

[SeaDragon]

You've got my vote!

[roughrider]

Even when Israel was run by one of its women, Golda Meier, it was more decisive than most of our politicians. The Congress can't bring itself to admit we are at war, but passes the hot potato off to Bush so, if anything goes wrong, they can blame him.

[mattflogel.com]

I can't stand moderates and doves and people who don't believe in anything (athiests). God give us back a spine.

[clamper1797]

Let the American fe-man BE NO MORE

[Dallas]

My first target would be Iraq.

They're already boxed in by the no-fly zone (36th parallel to the north, 33rd on the south).

After a serious propaganda campaign, his own people might overthrow him. If they do, we flood the place with food, medical supplies, and infrastructure.

[ninonitti]

Right between the eyes BTT

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Except for the part about occupying Libya (We already have all the sand we will ever need, thank you very much!) I am in total agreement with Fred. I have been reading his reporting since Vietnam, and he has been a direct and fearless truth-teller. VERY RARE in the American press- probably why he is not carried in 1,000 newspapers. Fred's police reporting alone would cause liberals to wet their pants all over this country! It could cause Upper West Siders to suffer strokes en masse.

Basically, he believes that there is evil in the world, and that holding hands and singing "Kumbaya" does NOTHING to eradicate it. Evil must be confronted by resolute people, and defeated- not once, but over and over again. It is never going to completely go away.

Anyone who believes differently (and there are a few on FR) is a hopeless fool.

[mattflogel.com]

this thread is for you, my moderate friend

[Hillary 666]

The price of pansy-hood is to live in a socialist France-like people's republic. We know what we have to do. But knowing what to do and stepping up and actually doing it are different things.

It bothers me, too, that the TV news keeps calling this whole thing a "tragedy", like it was a hurricane or car accident. In spite of the talking heads, I think that most Americans have gotten over the shock and feel the fangs-out anger that I do. After living in Camelot for too many years, I think that our country is growing up fast. I have faith that we are going to step up and pound the terrorists and their collaborators into the ground. We've been weak on terrorist incidents and other slaps in the face, but this is different. 84% of Amercians are in support of balls-to-the-wall war using every available option and accepting civilian casualties (and that 84% is from CBS, so you know it's more like 94%). The press is very liberal, but don't let them fool you. Play time is over.

[FReethesheeples]

Mega-bump.

A great deal of truth here!

Kudos.

[FReethesheeples]

Mega-bump.

A great deal of truth here!

Kudos.

[sport]

I think that rather than pansyhood it was 8 years of traitorhood.Led by the clinton enablers, defenders, and apologist both in and out of the media.

I also believe that we need deal with the traitors that are among us,that hold political office, are members of the media, and are in hollywood before we look overseas.

I will close with the observation that this is only the first installment of the price of the clinton regime's treachery that will be paid with blood of American citizens.
John A/K/A Sport

[Biblebelter]

This writer made some sobering points that the talking heads won't be slobbering over themselves on the idiot box. To those I would like to add some points of my own.

This nation from top to bottom does not have a clue to what national security truly means.

I am for openness in government, but when it comes to national security there must be secrecy and discipline. Of course we must elect some people to office with moral character so that they will not claim national security to cover up their own criminality or depravity.

We may be a nation of laws but there is no need to hamstring ourselves with international law and world courts when operating off our shores.

The reality of the present situation requires that we have an intelligence service of trained killers and kidnappers who covertly operate off our shores.

If we could, our best course of action now, would be to take out anyone we could find on the face of the earth who has had contact with the terrorist network.

Sure it makes a statement to bomb 19th century Afghanistan back to the 16th century.

But in this new war it is better and more efficient to operate in the dark than in the light of international wall to wall TV coverage. A dead unknown terrorist serves our purpose better than one who is known and headed for martyrdom among the millions looking for destruction of our civilization.

We have no evidence that these terrorists carry weapons or are trained to defend themselves against highly trained killers.

The terrorists who are of greatest threat to us are not the ones in Syria, Iraq, or Palestine. Those terrorists cannot get into our country directly from those terrorists states. They must nest and enter from an ally.

We should be doing some kidnapping and killing of potential terrorists when they are in these states supposedly friendly to us.

There are rumors that some terrorists have fled to Mexico. How difficult would it be to kidnap and dispose of them while they were in Mexico? It is not after all like kidnapping and murder is a rare occurence in Mexico.

Of course such actions goes against the panseyhood so acutely identified by the author in his article.

[Bush2000]

I think the time has come to take the gloves off -- and I mean the nuclear gloves. If the states that harbor or give assistance to these bastards won't turn them over, we should treat them as if they had performed the attack, themselves, and bomb them back to the Stone Age. If our forces have to deploy, let them clear the way with tactical nukes.

[jimfree]

Ned Stafford is a foolish and sheltered man. Though he is a good conveyor of snapshot looks at what might be so, he has no credit for what might be. Even clergy are now advocating or expressing toleration for military action. Some even understand an argument for the use of nuclear weapons. Stafford be damned! Something will be done.

[ArGee]

(8) We think we are a superpower. Actually we are not, except in the useless sense of having nuclear weapons.

"War is politics by other means." That's what I was taught in the military.

There is more going on in the world than who gives whom a bloodier black eye. There is more going on in the world than the kind of scuffling that little boys engage in on the playground when someone's "honor" is challenged. This is not a game, this is Life. (If it were a game it would need better directions.)

America is the lone superpower for three reasons.

• We have the most powerful military in the world. It may not yet know how to combat terrorism, but it is about to learn and may G-d have mercy on the souls of the men we test it out on. They don't know what these men can do.
• We have the most powerful economy in the world. One of the biggest grievances the radical east has against the west is our unstoppable economy. Slowly but surely the world is accepting our economic system, and with it our values and way of life. The east wants to fight instead of adapt. It is the struggle of a fox caught in a trap. They will not win without destroying themselves.
• We are the most just, decent, and moral people on the face of the earth. This is our power greater than any other for G-d sides with the just. Of course, someone is going to tell me about abortion. I would agree. Someone is going to tell me about how we treat the aged. I would agree. Someone is going to tell me about sexual perversion. I would agree. We have our warts. But overall we have the most just, moral, and decent society on the planet and, warts and all, the best heart. As a nation our moral power may be weeker than it was in 1950 (maybe not) but it is still powerfully strong.

We will prevail. The nation has been stung by an annoying fly (not to minimize the pain of those individuals who have been greviously injured) but we have not been seriously hurt. Now we swat the fly. I would not want to be that fly.

Shalom.

[PizzaDriver]

To "our Airlines"
It is a given that US airlines will have MAJOR input on the new Air Security Policies.
Today, I heard 2 networks tout the idea that "all airport security people" should be "College Graduates"; WRONG. WAITING for Colleges and Government to design and impliment a "degree program" would slow your industry's recovery by 5 years or more. Those "Grads' will have been trained In "warm fuzzy, liberal think", not the "scary world" that military training warns of.

If the FAA and the Airlines give into "liberal think", passengers must not have "nail clippers" or knitting needles; they must be "Sheep" and protected by "College Grad Sheep"
Your Industry will not, soon, recover under that plan. Loyal wolves, coyotes and sheepdogs are needed, both on staff and as passengers.

"Private Security Firms" are known as "rent-a-cops" for a reason. They do it cheap, not well. They hire "warm bodies". They abuse and overwork their few good people.

[realwoman]

EXACTLY what I have been saying! The ONLY way we will ever stop this and really BE the "superpower" we say we are is when all the men in this country, IN UNISON, march into the offices where their women work (wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts), throw them over their shoulders, take them home, put their apron back on them, and MAKE them stay home. Then repeal the 19th amendment so that when the MEN are running for office, they can concentrate on the IMPORTANT issues, rather than child care "issues" and abortion "issues" and child-support (i.e. child rent) "issues" and maternity leave "issues", etc., etc., barf, puke, etc. Until that day comes, I won't hold my breath on us being a "superpower", just a bunch of sniveling women looking for a world-wide "group hug".

[SEA]

Some very good points. We have become a nation run by the feminine, whether the leader is male or female. We always want 100% consensus. We never want even one person to feel at all bad, and if anyone feels bad then we forget what our goal was and focus on the feel-bad person.

Does anyone seriously doubt that, if this type and size of attack was done against Israel, that within hours at least one Arab capital would exist only in history? The Arabs know that too, which is why they focus their attacks against Israel on smaller terror bombings.